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No Manuscript
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2021/no-manuscript

No Manuscript #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Insel Poel bei Wismar, Ostsee , 2021 by me
nach einem Gewitter
Island Poel near by Wismar, Baltic Sea, Germany 2021 after a thunderstorm
#meermittwoch #seawednesday #naturism

Pictures of the #Visiodrom #Wuppertal #Stonehenge exhibition opening Saturday in https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230769665360148 as well as https://www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de/stadtteile/heckinghausen-oberbarmen/stonehenge-nun-in-wuppertal-heckinghausen_aid-131462885 and https://www.facebook.com/helgelindh/posts/stonehenge-in-wuppertal-ja-die-installation-ist-nicht-nur-ein-beeindruckendes-ku/1190657346197878/ - and there is also the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm1I1jmGibA (these full-size replicas of the inner structure were once made for a major exhibition in Herne - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2021/09/25/stonehenge-ist-nun-in-herne-als-ein-11-modell for the background).

Bills' Hairston: Truth will come out in wake of suit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45806993/bills-maxwell-hairston-hide-wake-lawsuit

Upright (Puppy Love) Lullaby - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2021/upright-puppy

Upright (Puppy Love) Lullaby - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Quantum-Safe Identity Verification using Relativistic Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems
Yao Ma, Wen Yu Kon, Jefferson Chu, Kevin Han Yong Loh, Kaushik Chakraborty, Charles Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14324

Quantum-Safe Identity Verification using Relativistic Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems
Identity verification is the process of confirming an individual's claimed identity, which is essential in sectors like finance, healthcare, and online services to ensure security and prevent fraud. However, current password/PIN-based identity solutions are susceptible to phishing or skimming attacks, where malicious intermediaries attempt to steal credentials using fake identification portals. Alikhani et al. [Nature, 2021] began exploring identity verification through graph coloring-based rel…

Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala, Mark Graham, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14752

Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
We document strategies and lessons learned from sampling the web by collecting 27.3 million URLs with 3.8 billion archived pages spanning 26 years (1996-2021) from the Internet Archive's (IA) Wayback Machine. Our goal is to revisit fundamental questions regarding the size, nature, and prevalence of the publicly archivable web, in particular, to reconsider the question: "How long does a web page last?" Addressing this question requires obtaining a sample of the web. We proposed several dimension…

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 22. Juli 2021 kam es im englischen #KKW #Heysham 1 zu einem Ausfall der 400-kV-Stromversorgung durch einen außerhalb des Kraftwerks gelegenen Transformators. Beide Reaktoren schalteten sich automatisch ab und die Notkühlung wurde musste aktiviert werden.

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Scot A. Hale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16298 https:/…

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
WhatsApp tiplines, first launched in 2019 to combat misinformation, enable users to interact with fact-checkers to verify misleading content. This study analyzes 580 unique claims (tips) from 451 users, covering both high-resource languages (English, Hindi) and a low-resource language (Telugu) during the 2021 Indian assembly elections using a mixed-method approach. We categorize the claims into three categories, election, COVID-19, and others, and observe variations across languages. We compare…

The noisy voter model with general initial conditions
Patrizio Caddeo, Eyal Lubetzky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16188 https://arxiv.o…

The noisy voter model with general initial conditions
We study the noisy voter model with $q\geq 2$ states and noise probability $θ$ on arbitrary bounded-degree $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with subexponential growth of balls (e.g., finite subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^d$). Cox, Peres and Steif (2016) showed for the binary case $q=2$ (and a wider class of chains) that, when starting from a worst-case initial state, this Markov chain has total variation cutoff at $t_n=\frac1{2θ}\log n$. The second author and Sly (2021) analyzed faster initial conditions for Gl…

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
Beatriz Villarroel, Enrique Solano, Geoffrey W. Marcy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15896 https:…

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
The VASCO project has discovered groups of short-lived transients on historical photographic plates that lack conventional explanation. Hambly & Blair (2024) examined nine such transients reported by Villarroel (2021) and found that they exhibit narrower, rounder profiles, attributing this to emulsion flaws. However, well-established optical principles and atmospheric physics imply that unresolved flashes lasting less than a second naturally appear sharper and more circular than stellar images,…

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Your Android phone is getting better at warning you about earthquakes
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 to 60 seconds’ notice

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Global Bifurcation of Spiral Wave Solutions to the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia, Ziad Ghanem, Wieslaw Krawcewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15098

Global Bifurcation of Spiral Wave Solutions to the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
We use the $\mathbb T^2$-equivariant degree to establish the existence of unbounded branches of rotating spiral wave solutions with any number of arms for the complex Ginzburg Landau equation GLe on the planar unit disc, leveraging the spatial symmetries inherent to the problem and avoiding limiting constraints encountered in previous studies (Dai 2021) that utilized the classical Leray-Schauder degree. Our results provide rigorous mathematical justification for the formation and persistence of…

Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15524 https://

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We curate and manually annotate a novel Hebrew-language corpus of 10,410 sentences drawn from Knesset speeches (1993-2023), Facebook posts (2018-2021), and leading news outlets, of which 1,812 instances (17.4\%) exhibit PDD and 642 carry additional annotations for intensity, incivility, target type, and affective framing…

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

So potus is proud of raising $80 billion in tariffs this year so far.
Biden raised $50 billion in tariffs in 2022 without crippling industries and alienating the world’s commerce.
Also, the U.S. government spends $38.7 billion on paper in 2022.
The whole U.S. government budget: $5.35 trillion.
So in 33 years, #TrumpTariffs might pay for a single year.
pape…

Paper forms cost government $38.7B annually says US Chamber of Commerce
The organization finds federal agencies processed 9,858 unique forms and more than 106 billion total between September 2021 and August 2022.

#Regenwald.org #Brasilien: Präsident Lula, legen Sie Ihr Veto ein! Stoppen Sie das Gesetz zur Umweltzerstörung
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#petition Brasilien: Präsident Lula, legen Sie Ihr Veto ein! Stoppen Sie das Gesetz zur Umweltzerstörung
Das brasilianische Parlament will mit dem Gesetz PL 2.159/2021 den Umwelt- und Regenwaldschutz massiv schwächen. Unternehmen sollen sich künftig selbst Umweltlizenzen für Projekte erteilen. Bitte fordern Sie Präsident Lula auf, dieses zerstörerische Gesetz mit seinem Veto zu stoppen!

🤯 Been working for hours and missed the newest eruption 🌋🇮🇸
#Iceland

Gossprungan hætt að lengjast - RÚV.is
Eldgos hófst á Sundhnúksgígaröðinni á Reykjanesskaga klukkan 03:54.Þetta er níunda gosið á þessum slóðum og það tólfta á Reykjanesskaga frá því að hrinan hófst með gosi við Fagradalsfjall í mars 2021.Kvikuhlaup hófst rétt fyrir miðnætti með ákafri jarðskjálftahrinu.Búið er að rýma Bláa lónið og tjaldsvæðið í Grindavík.Hættustig almannavarna hefur verið virkjað og hættumat fyrir svæðið hefur verið uppfært.Gossprungan er tæplega tveggja kíl…

Recent Chemo-morphological Coma Evolution of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Brian P. Murphy, Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass, Sophie E. Deam, L\'ea Ferellec, Matthew Knight, Bin Yang, Vincent Okoth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13979

Recent Chemo-morphological Coma Evolution of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
We present VLT/MUSE observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its 2021 perihelion passage, from which we generated simultaneous maps of dust, [OI], C$_2$, NH$_2$, and CN comae across 12 pre- and post-perihelion epochs. These maps reveal the evolutionary and compositional trends of 67P's coma and further enrich the context and findings of ESA's Rosetta mission. Dust and gas species displayed distinct structures, where NH$_2$ and CN signals were uniquely associated with known dust fa…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

For DC's upcoming report on how historic preservation promotes equity, here's a fine case study.
Guy bought historic townhouse in Alexandria in 2021. Converted three apartments “into something that Louis XIV would be proud of.” A 6-bedroom house with inlaid marble, gold leaf ceilings, gold toilets & a gold fireplace grate from a French chateau.
https://

Ornate Alexandria townhouse is styled after Versailles
House of the Week | Six-bedroom, five-bath ‘The Prince’ has a Midas touch, selling for $4 million.

Também se aplica a fascistas que vão a manifestações de imigrantes ver se algum lhes dš um murro nos cornos.
https://mstdn.ca/@Rasta/115242458800439093

Rasta (@Rasta@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image Sept 20th.. #NOTE 2021 The history of Nazis holding rallies... Screencap: @CarterForva "... seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now" #Fascism #History #GOP #Nazis

Requiem for a Stranger
- inspiration from grief and hope -
#StrangerRequiem #NowPlaying
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Requiem for a Stranger #StrangerRequiem #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Finally stepped through and upgraded my home assistant from 2021.12 to 2025.7
Some things broke of course.... But most were already broken.
All of my tasmota devices that I upgraded to 9.5 a while back don't work in the native Tasmota integration mode.. they register and but show no data, works fine in mqtt discovery mode. Aka stuck using Setoption19 1 rather than Setoption19 0
#selfhosted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remix)
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

QB Philip Rivers officially retires with Chargers https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-philip-rivers-officially-retires-with-chargers

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
The design of forms in government departments.
https://design-of-forms.online/
saved 2021-03-20 https://dotat.a…

Pretty unique, non-clichéd, slow, minimal, dubby, syncopated, accented with vocal/vowel fragments:
Drames Rurals - L'empelt (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SSti6bdZM

News Corp authorizes a $1B stock repurchase program; the total authorization now stands at $1.3B as ~$303M is remaining under the September 2021 buyback plan (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/news-corp-announces-new-1-…

Das #Rezept des Tages:
🍝🌿 Bandnudeln mit Mangold-Tomaten-Sahne-Soße bringen Abwechslung in das Leben der #PastaLover. Frischer #Mangold und

Bandnudeln mit Mangold-Tomaten-Sahne-Soße
Mangold habe ich 2021 zum ersten Mal angepflanz und hatte im Juni so viel Ernte aus nur zwei Pflanzkästen, dass ich eingekocht habe. Ich verzichte nach Möglichkeit auf einfrieren, weil das Strom kostet. Eine Konserve...

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Guy Mor-Lan, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Yael R. Kaplan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15483

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts and expressed through particular uses of language, existing datasets for group and identity detection are predominantly English-centric, single-label and focus on coarse identity categories. We introduce HebID, the first multilabel Hebrew corpus for social identity detection: 5,536 sentences from Israeli politicians' Facebook posts (Dec 2018-Apr 2021), manually…

I dug out the 2021 yard sign.

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

Spectral extremal problems for non-bipartite graphs without odd cycles
Lantao Zou, Lihua Feng, Yongtao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11817 https://

Spectral extremal problems for non-bipartite graphs without odd cycles
A well-known result of Mantel asserts that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph $G$ has at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ edges. Moreover, Erdős proved that if $G$ is further non-bipartite, then $e(G)\le \lfloor {(n-1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +1$. Recently, Lin, Ning and Wu [Combin. Probab. Comput. 30 (2021)] established a spectral version by showing that if $G$ is a triangle-free non-bipartite graph on $n$ vertices, then $λ(G)\le λ(S_1(T_{n-1,2}))$, with equality if and only if $G=S_1(T_{n-1,2})$, wher…

PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, strongest since H1 2021, driven by the AI boom and on track for the second-best year ever (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-ai-startup…

"De zaak van de supermarktmedewerker dient in september 2021, precies 1 week voor de zaak van John Nanhay-Khan. Hoewel Nanhay-Khan vooral fysieke klachten heeft en de supermarktmedewerker cognitieve problemen, bevatten de uitspraken van de 2 mannen exact dezelfde klachtenbeschrijvingen. Wonderlijk genoeg krijgen ze ook dezelfde diagnose. Letterlijk: de formuleringen in beide zaken komen met elkaar overeen, alsof ze van de ene naar de andere zaak zijn geknipt en geplakt.''

Met knip-en-plakwerk en dubieuze testen keurt het UWV werknemers goed
Burgers die bezwaar maken tegen beslissingen van het UWV zijn kansloos bij de rechter. Hoge rechters doen niet aan waarheidsvinding en vertrouwen op dossiers die bestaan uit knip-en-plakwerk en dubieuze leugentesten. ‘Mensen lopen onwetend in de val.’

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

"Mehr als 100.000 #Exchange-Server sollen in den USA betroffen gewesen sein, in Deutschland mehrere Zehntausend. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (#BSI) ging davon aus, dass alle Exchange-Systeme, die nicht abgesichert waren, mit einer

Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

📢 Deutschland schickt zum zweiten Mal seit Taliban-Machtübernahme Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan
Deutschland schiebt zum zweiten Mal seit der Machtübernahme durch die Taliban im August 2021 afghanische Staatsangehörige in ihr Herkunftsland ab. Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt (CSU) bestätigte, dass ein Flugzeug von Leipzig aus mit 81 Menschen an Bord gestartet ist, um diese in ihr Herkunftsland zurückzubringen.
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Deutschland schickt zum zweiten Mal seit Taliban-Machtübernahme Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan
Nach fast einem Jahr Pause ist wieder ein Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan gestartet - just an dem Tag, an dem Innenminister Dobrindt zum Migrationsgipfel lädt.

On approximate quantum error correction for symmetric noise
Gereon Ko{\ss}mann, Julius A. Zeiss, Omar Fawzi, Mario Berta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12326 h…

On approximate quantum error correction for symmetric noise
We revisit the extendability-based semi-definite programming hierarchy introduced by Berta et al. [Mathematical Programming, 1 - 49 (2021)], which provides converging outer bounds on the optimal fidelity of approximate quantum error correction (AQEC). As our first contribution, we introduce a measurement-based rounding scheme that extracts inner sequences of certifiably good encoder-decoder pairs from this outer hierarchy. To address the computational complexity of evaluating fixed levels of th…

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
Yasutada Oohama, Bagus Santoso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13294

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
We reinvestigate the general distributed secure source coding based on the common key cryptosystem proposed by Oohama and Santoso (ITW 2021). They proposed a framework of distributed source encryption and derived the necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission. However, the bounds of the rate region, which specifies both necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission under the proposed cryptosystem, were derived based on a self-tail…

AFL Sydney Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Die letzte Kommunalwahl in NRW war 2020, damals stand das Thema Klima ganz oben auf der Agenda. Jetzt geht es um Wirtschaft, Sicherheit, Migration. Klimaschutz ist kaum ein Thema mehr. Und das in einem der Bundesländer der Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal 2021. Ob der Klimawandel weiß, dass er sich jetzt mal zurückhalten soll, weil er kein Trendthema mehr ist?
#KommunalwahlNRW

Return of the Mac? Five things we've learned about QB Mac Jones after latest starting stint https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46347724/san-francisco-49ers-quarterback-mac-jones-five-things-learned-nfl-2025

I just emailed JS Dewes to complain huffily that her books are too addictive and for her to hurry up and write more.
C'mon, authors, we need at least A BOOK A WEEK! Stop swinging the lead!
#TheDivideSeries

J.S. Dewes, Science Fiction Author
Welcome to the official website for science fiction author J.S. Dewes! Her debut novel THE LAST WATCH will be out April 20, 2021 from Tor Books.

Streit um Blutsauerstoffmessung: Apple Watch in den USA wieder vor Gericht
Apple zofft sich seit 2021 mit Masimo um eine mögliche Patentverletzung bei der Apple Watch. Nun wurde Berufung eingelegt.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Overview of the TREC 2021 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08191 https:/…

Overview of the TREC 2021 deep learning track
This is the third year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we refreshed both the document and the passage collections which also led to a nearly four times increase in the document collection size and nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection. Deep neural ranking models that em…

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Mayukh Choudhury, Debraj Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12457

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator or Lasso, introduced by Tibshirani (1996), is one of the widely used regularization methods in regression. It is observed that the properties of Lasso vary wildly depending on the choice of the penalty parameter. The recent results of Lahiri (2021) suggest that, depending on the nature of the penalty parameter, Lasso can either be variable selection consistent or be $n^{1/2}-$consistent. However, practitioners generally implement Lasso by choosing…

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields, II
Kaimin Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10779

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields, II
Let $q$ be a prime power and $\mathbb{F}_q$ the finite field with $q$ elements. For a positive integer $n$, the polynomial $X^n - 1 \in \mathbb{F}_q[X]$ is termed $3$-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ if all its irreducible factors in $\mathbb{F}_q[X]$ are either binomials or trinomials. In 2021, Oliveira and Reis characterized all positive integers $n$ for which $X^n - 1$ is 3-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ when $q = 2$ and $q = 4$. Recently, the author provided a complete characterization for odd $q$. T…

The picture of James Baldwin with the moon and corona halo are from Maria Popova's The Marginalian website: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/06/james-baldwin-giovannis-room-love-choice/?mc_cid=a97353e0…

James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-1…

Enterprise Security Incident Analysis and Countermeasures Based on the T-Mobile Data Breach
Zhuohan Cui, Zikun Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12937 https:…

Enterprise Security Incident Analysis and Countermeasures Based on the T-Mobile Data Breach
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of T-Mobile's critical data breaches in 2021 and 2023, alongside a full-spectrum security audit targeting its systems, infrastructure, and publicly exposed endpoints. By combining case-based vulnerability assessments with active ethical hacking techniques--including Shodan reconnaissance, API misuse simulations, VNC brute-forcing, firmware reverse engineering, and web application scans--we uncover structural weaknesses persisting beyond the initial b…

#NowPlaying an incredible EP I haven't mentioned here surprisingly, I bought this a while back, this was from 2021. I've talked about Gorgeous Jefe here before, one of my favorite rappers from Phoenix here- on this one as Malick McFly before he changed his name to Jefe. I talk to Jefe here and there, he told me this EP is FULLY freestyle, NOTHING written down, just a bunch of talented Arizona ra…

Unavoidable pivot-minors in graphs of large rank-depth
Jungho Ahn, Kevin Hendrey, O-joung Kwon, Sang-il Oum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12697 https://

Unavoidable pivot-minors in graphs of large rank-depth
Shrub-depth and rank-depth are related graph parameters that are dense analogs of tree-depth. We prove that for every positive integer $t$, every graph of sufficiently large rank-depth contains a pivot-minor isomorphic to a path on $t$ vertices or a graph consisting of two disjoint cliques of size $t$ joined by a half graph. This answers an open problem raised by Kwon, McCarty, Oum, and Wollan in 2021.

Instrumental music for those who are wise and all of us who are seeking wisdom ...
"How To Become"
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2021/how-to-become-nowplaying/

How To Become #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/02/28/Weird-architectures-werent-supported-to-begin-with
saved 2025-04-12

Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

A giant new mural, titled
"Wall of Shame",
has launched in Brooklyn, New York,
to remind people of the crimes committed by more than 1,500 MAGA loyalists on January 6, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

Le Dalai-Lama et son manque de discernement : En 1998, il était au courant des procédures juridiques contre la OKC. Découvrez plus d'informations ici :
https://okcinfo.chardonsbleus.org/2021/individus/…

A multi-frequency global view of Callisto's thermal properties from ALMA
Maria Camarca, Katherine de Kleer, Bryan Butler, Alexander Thelen, Cole Meyer, Alex Akins, Imke de Pater, Mark Gurwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12671

A multi-frequency global view of Callisto's thermal properties from ALMA
We present thermal observations of Callisto's leading and trailing hemispheres obtained using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 0.87 mm (343 GHz), 1.3 mm (233 GHz), and 3 mm (97 GHz). The angular resolution achieved for these observations ranged from 0.09-0.24 arcseconds, corresponding to ~420-1100 km at Callisto. Global surface properties were derived from the observations using a thermophysical model (de Kleer et al. 2021) constrained by spacecraft data. We find that …

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Les Négresses Vertes:
🎵 Face À La Mer (Massive Attack Remix)
#LesNégressesVertes
https://vangelislolos.bandcamp.com/track/les-negresses-vertes-face-a-la-mer-vangelis-lolos-redrum-mix-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/3J4rpz1xmakhuWoJFk3rj6

Modal toccata
- the pipe organ is like a whole orchestra under your hands ... and feet -
#PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
https://

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

World of Good Brands, formerly Leaf Group, shuts down after owner Graham Holdings sold off its last three titles; Graham Holdings acquired it in 2021 for $323M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/world-of-good-brands-sale-well-good-ziff-davis/

World of Good Brands Sells Off Portfolio, Lays Off Staff, and Shutters 
The closure represents the end of the digital media company once known as Intent Media.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/Lgc6zOe
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the "marshmallow test",
and the results showed there's more going on in their strange little brains than we ever suspected.
Their ability to learn, anticipate future rewards, and adapt their behavior, the researchers said,
may have evolved to give cuttlefish an edge in the cutthroat eat-or-be-eaten marine world they live

Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Intended For Human Children
An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence.

Nielsen: Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/…

from my link log —
A Mind Is Born: 256 byte Commodore 64 demo.
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
saved 2021-03-19 ht…

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Chargers RB Najee Harris suffers eye injury in fireworks accident https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6487158/2025/07/10/najee-harris-accident-injury-fireworks-chargers/

Mood Swings Suite
- my spouse says this is my best album - believe me when I say that's high praise...
#OrchestralMusic #OriginalMusic #NowPlaying

Mood Swings Suite #NowPlaying
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For more than a century, putrid fumes emanated from
the “sewer of the Ruhr”,
creating a pungent whiff that assaulted towns throughout Germany’s industrial heartland.
But today, the Emscher bears little resemblance to Europe’s dirtiest river.
Water that used to be fouled by factory waste and human excrement have been free from effluent since 2021.
The river system, the main part of which was once considered biologically dead, is witnessing the return of an abun…

from my link log —
Exploring ways to make async Rust easier.
https://carllerche.com/2021/06/17/six-ways-to-make-async-rust-easier/
saved 2021-06-17

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Be (5) Yourself
An album featuring the sounds of the Hammond B3
#B3 #HammondB3 #NowPlaying

Be (5) Yourself #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

Fired Justice Department official warns "we are falling into an abyss"
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Saudi Arabia has executed almost 600 people over the past decade for drug-related offences,
-- three-quarters of whom were foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria and Egypt.
After a temporary moratorium on drug-related capital punishments between 2021 and 2022, the executions jumped to record levels, with 122 in 2024 and 118 so far this year up until the end of last month.
With little international scrutiny of what Amnesty International de…

Ted Cruz was sightseeing in Athens as first responders began launching search and rescue operations back home, The Daily Beast reports.
The senator reportedly landed in Greece on Thursday, July 3;
was spotted at the Parthenon on Saturday, July 5;
and is believed to have not caught a plane to San Antonio, Texas, until Sunday.
The Daily Beast’s report recalls the infamous February 2021 incident
in which the senator took a trip to Cancun, Mexico,
during a hi…

Ted Cruz Caught Vacationing as Texas Suffered Deadly Floods
“Twenty dead kids and you’re on vacation?” someone asked the Texas senator after spotting him abroad.

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in Jan. 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (Financial Times)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Apple has now sold over 3B iPhones since its 2007 launch; it reached 1B sold in July 2016, and is estimated to have reached 2B around September 2021 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/31/tim-cook-apple-just-sold-its-three-billionth-iphone/…

Tim Cook: Apple just sold its three-billionth iPhone - 9to5Mac
Apple reported its fiscal Q3 2025 earnings today, beating analyst expectations in key categories like revenue, earnings per share, iPhone...

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7299b6f-2b58-46c0-bbe5-e650357e8f48

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Ambrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/0…

Exclusive: Ambrook raises $26.1 million Series A to provide farmers and ranchers with better accounting software
Founded in 2021, Ambrook has raised a $26.1 million Series A, led by Thrive Capital and Dylan Field, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

A Texas law enacted in June, inspired by the crippling 2021 winter storm, lets the state's grid operator cut off electricity to data centers in an emergency (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/…

Memories of deadly winter blackouts haunt the Texas data center boom
A newly passed law in Texas requires emergency shutoff switches for data centers, including the massive $500 billion AI supercomputer backed by President Trump.