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Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2021/modal-toccata-pipeorgan-…

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
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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.

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

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

What is this about?

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`…

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

Benchmarking GPT-5 in Radiation Oncology: Measurable Gains, but Persistent Need for Expert Oversight
Ugur Dinc, Jibak Sarkar, Philipp Schubert, Sabine Semrau, Thomas Weissmann, Andre Karius, Johann Brand, Bernd-Niklas Axer, Ahmed Gomaa, Pluvio Stephan, Ishita Sheth, Sogand Beirami, Annette Schwarz, Udo Gaipl, Benjamin Frey, Christoph Bert, Stefanie Corradini, Rainer Fietkau, Florian Putz

Benchmarking GPT-5 in Radiation Oncology: Measurable Gains, but Persistent Need for Expert Oversight
Introduction: Large language models (LLM) have shown great potential in clinical decision support. GPT-5 is a novel LLM system that has been specifically marketed towards oncology use. Methods: Performance was assessed using two complementary benchmarks: (i) the ACR Radiation Oncology In-Training Examination (TXIT, 2021), comprising 300 multiple-choice items, and (ii) a curated set of 60 authentic radiation oncologic vignettes representing diverse disease sites and treatment indications. For …

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Gestern war wieder die Zeit für eine #Mangoldernte gekommen.
Diesmal wurden auch die #Fleischtomaten geerntet, von denen es dieses Jahr nicht so viele auf meinem #Balkon gibt.
Es…

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...

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…

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

Proof of the linkage conjecture for highly connected tournaments
Jia Zhou, Jin Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22651…

Proof of the linkage conjecture for highly connected tournaments
A digraph $D$ is $k$-linked if for every $2k$ distinct vertices $ x_1,\ldots , x_k, y_1, \ldots , y_k$ in $D$, there exist $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint paths $P_1,\ldots, P_k$ such that $P_i$ starts at $x_i$ and ends at $y_i$ for each $i\in [k]$. In 2021, Girão, Popielarz, and Snyder [Combinatorica 41 (2021) 815--837] conjectured that there exists a constant $C >0$ such that every $(2k+1)$-connected tournament with minimum out-degree at least $Ck$ is $k$-linked. In this paper, we disprove this…

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease Attributable to High Body Mass Index (BMI) among Individuals Aged 20-54 Years from 1990 to 2021: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Yu Chen, Guangxi Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23537

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease Attributable to High Body Mass Index (BMI) among Individuals Aged 20-54 Years from 1990 to 2021: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Background:Chronic kidney disease is one of the most prevalent non-communicable health issues globally, and high body mass index plays a significant role in the onset and progression of chronic kidney disease. Methods: Data on the disease burden attributable to high body mass index were retrieved from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study . The global cases, age-standardized mortality rate , and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years attributable to high b…

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…

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/

Quantum Hamming Metrics
Marc A. Rieffel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23046

Quantum Hamming Metrics
Given the set of words of a given length for a given alphabet, the Hamming metric between two such words is the number of positions where the two words differ. A quantum version of the corresponding Kantorovich-Wasserstein metric on states was introduced in 2021 by De Palma, Marvian, Trevisan and Lloyd. For the quantum version the alphabet is replaced by a full matrix algebra, and the set of words is replaced by the tensor product of a corresponding number of copies of that full matrix algebra.…

SAP plans to acquire HR software company SmartRecruiters, with the deal expected to close in Q4; SmartRecruiters was valued at $1.5B in a 2021 funding round (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#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!

@… Als geborener Lindener muss ich sagen: Das mit der SPD ist vorbei und kommt auch nicht wieder:
https://…

Data-Driven Modeling of IRCU Patient Flow in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ana Carmen Navas-Ortega, Jos\'e Antonio S\'anchez-Mart\'inez, Paula Garc\'ia-Flores, Concepci\'on Morales-Garc\'ia, Rene Fabregas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09751

Data-Driven Modeling of IRCU Patient Flow in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Intermediate Respiratory Care Units (IRCUs) are vital during crises like COVID-19. This study evaluated clinical outcomes and operational dynamics of a new Spanish IRCU with specialized staffing. A prospective cohort study (April-August 2021) included 249 adult patients with COVID-19 respiratory failure (UHVN IRCU, Granada). Data on demographics, Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV), length of stay (LOS), and outcomes (ICU transfer, exitus, recovery) were analyzed. Patient flow was simulated using a …