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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...

Good Morning #Canada
Conservationists who focus on restoration of wetlands are increasingly "Leaving It To Beaver." Beavers are considered the ultimate Keystone Species because they area they re-engineer offer benefits to many other species, and an entire ecosystem can collapse if a Beaver is removed. A Beaver dam doesn't just hold and conserve water. Beavers increase the population of frogs, fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and extend the range of larger mammals like moose, deer, and bears. The quantity and variety of vegetation are increased. Water is filtered and saturates the land, refilling artesian wells. It's unbelievable that we almost lost this amazing creature because of a hat fashion trend.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/01/01/leave-it-to-beavers-keystone-species-provides-nature-based-restoration/

Mildly interesting: Der #Gasspeicher #Rehden ist wieder leer. Zuletzt passierte das 2021/2022 unter Gazprom und quasi-Russischer Kontrolle. Aktuell gäbe es Angebot, Preise sind etwa auf Vorjahresniveau. Wäre interessant zu wissen, warum der aktuelle Betreiber den Sommer nicht fürs Nachf…

One thing that's great about living in #Japan is that it's one of the few countries where the main hard-left party both has some power, and is critical of the pseudo-#fascist, ethno-#nationalist party tha…

The Japanese Communist Party’s Feud with Beijing: Will the Global Left Take Note? | New Bloom Magazine
On July 1st, 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its hundredth anniversary, and duly received congratulatory messages from political leaders and parties around the world.

from my link log —
Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/01/22/cranelift-isel-2/
saved 2021-02-19

The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021 317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
Haitian Shang, Wei Zhao, Xiaoyu Hong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Ailing Zeng, Tao An, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23082

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021+317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
We present an investigation of the compact structure of the AGN 2021+317 based on multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 15, 22, and 43 GHz in the period from 2013 through 2024. The VLBI images show a core-jet structure extended to the south, with two stationary components in the northern region, one of which likely to be the core of the source. We also detected two new moving jet components (S4 and S5) in the observations of 2021. Based on these observational find…

Inference on Common Trends in a Cointegrated Nonlinear SVAR
James A. Duffy, Xiyu Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22869

Inference on Common Trends in a Cointegrated Nonlinear SVAR
We consider the problem of performing inference on the number of common stochastic trends when data is generated by a cointegrated CKSVAR (a two-regime, piecewise-linear SVAR; Mavroeidis, 2021), using a modified version of the Breitung (2002) multivariate variance ratio test that is robust to the presence of nonlinear cointegration (of a known form). To derive the asymptotics of our test statistic, we prove a fundamental LLN-type result for a class of stable but nonstationary autoregressive pro…

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

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Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

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

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

#Regenwald.org #Brasilien: Präsident Lula, legen Sie Ihr Veto ein! Stoppen Sie das Gesetz zur Umweltzerstörung
https://

#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!

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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

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…

Zohran Mamdani received 545,334 votes in RCV tally. That's 135% of Eric Adams' 2021 primary vote.
Mamdani's proven primary voters would make a 48% share of those who turned out in the 2021 general election.
https://enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1.html

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…

Pond Slider on a rock. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. March, 2021. #descansogardens #turtle #slider

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.

Multi-GPU Acceleration of PALABOS Fluid Solver using C Standard Parallelism
Jonas Latt, Christophe Coreixas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09242 https://

Multi-GPU Acceleration of PALABOS Fluid Solver using C++ Standard Parallelism
This article presents the principles, software architecture, and performance analysis of the GPU port of the lattice Boltzmann software library Palabos (J. Latt et al., "Palabos: Parallel lattice Boltzmann solver", Comput. Math. Appl. 81, 334-350, (2021)). A hybrid CPU-GPU execution model is adopted, in which numerical components are selectively assigned to either the CPU or the GPU, depending on considerations of performance or convenience. This design enables a progressive porting strategy, a…

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Haruki Umezaki, Hiroki Shibata, Dominik K\"oppl, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22728

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Let $w$ be a string of length $n$. The problem of counting factors crossing a position - Problem 64 from the textbook ``125 Problems in Text Algorithms'' [Crochemore, Leqroc, and Rytter, 2021], asks to count the number $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ (resp. $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$) of distinct substrings in $w$ that have occurrences containing (resp. not containing) a position $k$ in $w$. The solutions provided in their textbook compute $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ and $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$ in $O(n)$ time for a single positi…

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

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Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
Aristeidis Polychronakis, Aris Tritsis, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06297

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
The magnetic field is known to play a crucial role in star formation. Dust polarization is an effective tool for probing the morphology of the field, yet it does not directly trace its strength. Several methods have been developed, combining polarization and spectroscopic data, to estimate the strength of the magnetic field, including the DCF method, which relates these quantities to the magnetic-field strength under the assumption of Alfvénic turbulence. Skalidis & Tassis (2021) (ST), relaxed…

Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grammarly-acquires-e…

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22965

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition' (first published September 2021) advanced the use of least-cost benchmark diets to monitor and improve food security. Those papers contributed to the worldwide use of least-cost diets as a new diagnostic indic…

CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% this year, highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B , as big investors flock to BTC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17