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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

Trying to figure out why Gemini AI in Gmail is so very bad. It seems to not have access to all of my email and whatever RAG-like thing they are doing is very stupid.
Here's Gemini saying my oldest email matching some keywords in 2021 is from March 2021. If I explicitly tell it to look in February 2021, it finds it. There's only 11 emails that match in all of 2021, it's not like I'm blowing up the context window.

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

'Warrior' Mac Jones lifts 49ers again, vindicating Kyle Shanahan and buying Brock Purdy time https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6685997/2025/10/03/mac-jones-kyle-shanahan-49ers-rams/

Here's your annual warning to beware hanging out in person with Defcon attendees, because many of them have returned with asymptomatic COVID infections.
As in every year since 2021, Defcon is a super spreader event. Many COVID infections are NOT symptomatic: not showing symptoms does not guarantee not carrying the highly contagious virus.

Un an chez 3liz
#throwbackthursday

from my link log —
Implementing a functional language with graph reduction.
https://thma.github.io/posts/2021-12-27-Implementing-a-functional-language-with-Graph-Reduction.html
saved 2025-07-27

🔎 'Google for DNA' enables rapid full-text searches of vast genetic archives
#cs

'Google for DNA' enables rapid full-text searches of vast genetic archives
Rare hereditary diseases can be identified in patients and specific mutations in tumor cells detected—DNA sequencing revolutionized biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, new sequencing methods (next-generation sequencing) in particular have resulted in numerous scientific breakthroughs. In 2020/2021, for example, they enabled the rapid decoding and global monitoring of the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-chip-startup-sambano…

AI Chip Startup SambaNova Explores Sale After Stalled Fundraising
Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The Palo Alto, Calif., startup was last valued at $5 billion in 2021. SambaNova and other AI chip startups have ...

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
L. L. Lage, A. B. F\'elix, D. S. Gomes, M. L. Pereira Jr., A. Latg\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02231 h…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
Organic Quantum Chains (OQCs) represent a newly synthesized class of carbon-based nanostructures whose quasi-one-dimensional nature gives rise to unconventional electronic and transport phenomena. Here we investigate the electronic and transport properties of recently synthesized OQCs [Nature Communications, 12, 5895 (2021)]. Structural stability was first assessed through molecular dynamics relaxation combined with density functional theory (DFT). The optimized coordinates are then used in a t…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Psychedelic Research Lab & Chaos in the CBD:
🎵 Tarenah
#PsychedelicResearchLab #ChaosintheCBD
https://chaosinthecbd.bandcamp.com/track/tarenah-chill-mix-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bLY39Kz7co1XJ7ED7U8MI
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Saving Electricity and Gas (2021) - Meter readings at home. #4kWhDHWClub - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2021.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2021)
Meter readings at home. #4kWhDHWClub

Hardware is weird sometimes
Julien's random thoughts: Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
https://blog.madbrain.com/2022/12/corsair-cmk32gx4m2d3600-ram-micron.…

Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
In November 2021, I upgraded my main desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU, an Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard, and a Corsair CMK32GX...

Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021,
"the Base" established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups
— a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.
Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the European Union list of sanctioned terrorist groups.
A sudden burst of activity in Ukraine has renewed suspicions that the Base and its leader,
Rinaldo Nazzaro,…

Neo-Nazi group with US links may be backed by Russian intelligence
Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021, the Base established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups — a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the Europ...

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.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

On August 15th, Hutch Mansell is back in Nobody 2.
▶️ TOP "Thank You For Your Service"" Reactions! Nobody (2021) Movie Reactio...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vfolSBZMa4U&si=aNepe5QTmvJYXYoU
✅ Everything You Need to Know About Nobody 2…

from my link log —
Creating a read-only PostgreSQL user.
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/creating-a-read-only-postgres-user
saved 2021-05-12

Creating a Read-Only Postgres User | Crunchy Data Blog
Learn how to create a read only user in Postgres both now and with a look ahead to Postgres 14.

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
A. V. Turbiner (deceased), N. L. Vasilevski (deceased)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05924 https://

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
The notion of the eigenvalue problem in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions is introduced. This problem is classified by using the finite-dimensional representations of the $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-algebra in Fock space. In the complex representation of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg algebra, proposed by Turbiner-Vasilevski (2021) in Ref.7, this construction is reduced to the linear differential operators in $(\frac{\partial}{\partial \overline{z}}\,,\,\frac{\partial}{\partial z})$ acting on …

from my link log —
Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
https://wallisc.github.io/rendering/2021/04/18/Fullscreen-Pass.html
saved 2025-09-29

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Visualizing phonon edge states on molybdenum disulphide
Patrick Giese, Mathias Stokkebye Nissen, Stig Helveg, Jakob Schi{\o}tz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08497 https://

Visualizing phonon edge states on molybdenum disulphide
We employ Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to study atom vibrational amplitudes in carbon-supported Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) nanoparticles. Enhanced and correlated atom vibrational amplitudes are observed as the nanoparticle edges are approached from the bulk, consistent with recent experimental High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HR-TEM) observations by Chen et al (Nature Communications 12, 5007 (2021). Analysis of phonon modes in finite systems explains the experimental o…