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On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds

On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds

„Mother of Order“ by The Sarge
Platform: C64
Released: 27 November 2021
Note: 1st in the Syntax 2021 Pixel Graphics (8bit) competition
#GFX_The_Sarge #YR_2021 #PF_C64…

Re-ranking 2021 NFL Draft by position: Where do Trevor Lawrence, Micah Parsons fall? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6400472/2025/06/05/nfl-draft-2021-micah-parsons-trevor-lawrence/

DoorDash, Uber, and Grubhub agree to settle a 2021 lawsuit against New York City over its pandemic-era 15% cap to commissions and fees charged to restaurants (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-Period Comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs)
David Jewitt. Jing Li, Michael Jaeger, Yoonyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09263

Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-Period Comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs)
We combine ground- and space-based observations of long-period comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs) (perihelion distance 0.287 au) in order to investigate its reported near-perihelion destruction. Pre-perihelion photometric observations show a remarkably small heliocentric dependence of the scattered light, $\propto r_H^{-s}$ with $s = 2.59\pm0.21$, distinct from values reported in other long-period comets, for which $s$ = 4 is the canonical standard. The index is smaller than expected of coma productio…

AI's environmental impact can be extremely localized. A Maine bill would limit the amount of electricity data centers can siphon from local power grids.
(I'm interviewed for the story)
https://www.bangordailynews.com…

Dalai-Lama et son incapacité totale Š discerner Š qui donner son soutien
https://okcinfo.chardonsbleus.org/2021/individus/dalai-lama-et-son-incapacite-totale-a-discerner-a-qui-donner-son-soutien/…

from my link log —
Crossness pumping station: seduced by symmetry.
https://www.anthonybaines.co.uk/blog/2021/9/2/crossness-pumping-station-seduced-by-symmetry
saved 2025-05-15

Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry — Anthony Baines Photography
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit the Crossness Pumping Station in South-East London . It is variously known as the "Cathedral in the Marshes" or, more bluntly, the "Cathedral of Sewage". It is a former Victorian sewage pumping station, opened in 1865; it continued to ope

Wren Loud and Bold Ambient (2021-06) - Ambient soundscape from 16WW back garden birdlife; small bird makes big noise! #wren #soundscape #fieldRecording -

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/meuterei-in-berlin-kreuzberg-polizei-verhindert-besetzung-von-ehemaliger-linker-szenekneipe-13776571.html
Sorry, wenn ein Gebäude seit der Räu…

Ehemalige linke Szenekneipe: Polizei verhindert Besetzung von „Meuterei“ in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Am Donnerstag wollten offenbar 30 Personen die leerstehende Kneipe „Meuterei“ besetzen. Das Lokal wurde 2021 geräumt.

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/byjdi4emee

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
The Israeli company, founded in 2021 by Check Point alumni, has developed a platform for identifying and fixing security gaps in real time 30 Veriti employees will join Check Point as part of the deal, which is a continuation of the company's Israeli acquisition strategy

So You Want To Be A Copywriter With Bernadette Schwerdt
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/so-you-want-to-be-a-copywriter-with-bernadette-schwerdt/

So You Want To Be A Copywriter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: So You Want To Be A Copywriter With Bernadette Schwerdt Host: Bernadette Schwerdt Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, How To, Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2021 Join Australia’…

Milk: Make Your Own Mind Up - (2021) Full Documentary #AnimalRights #milk

Snorkel AI, which pivoted from data labeling to building AI evaluation tools, raised a $100M Series D led by Addition at a $1.3B valuation, up from $1B in 2021 (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast…

Snorkel AI Raises $100 Million To Build Better Evaluators For AI Models
As it faces off against larger players, the data labelling startup is doubling down on using human experts to evaluate AI systems.

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/…

THEME FROM LUPIN Ⅲ 2021［Live Music Video］| ルパン三世のテーマ2021 (Special Studio...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0nYMRz1IfU&si=EDIYvjUKhQgkJDxr

Be (5) Yourself
- released in 2021, but coming to Bandcamp for the first time -
#HammondB3
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/be-5-yourself

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07576 has been replaced.
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The BCFW Tiling of the ABJM Amplituhedron
The orthogonal momentum amplituhedron O_k was introduced simultaneously in 2021 by Huang, Kojima, Wen, and Zhang, and by He, Kuo, and Zhang, in the study of scattering amplitudes of ABJM theory. It was conjectured that it admits a decomposition into BCFW cells. We prove this conjecture.

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Proof of Merca's stronger conjecture on truncated Jacobi triple product series
In the study of theta series and partition functions, Andrews and Merca, Guo and Zeng independently conjectured that a truncated Jacobi triple product series has nonnegative coefficients. This conjecture was proved analytically by Mao and combinatorially by Yee. In 2021, Merca proposed a stronger version of the conjecture, that is, for positive integers $1\leq S

The MF Hydra is Norway's Ship of the Year 2021. It is also the first and only ship powered by Liquefied Hydrogen (LH₂). And... I don't know where to start... 🚢
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen. Hydrogen has a very low energy density per volume, and liquefying it is an option to increase it. It is also a way to have all the problems you usually have with hydrogen and some additional ones on top.🧵

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie,
a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda,
is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.
Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida.
She moved to D.C. in January.
Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $1…

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13658 has been replaced.
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SRGAJ230631.0+155633: an extremely X-ray luminous, heavily obscured, radio-loud quasar at z=0.44 discovered by SRG/ART-XC
We report on a detailed study of a luminous, heavily obscured ($N_{\rm H} \sim 2 \times 10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$), radio-loud quasar SRGAJ230631.0+155633, discovered in the 4--12 keV energy band by the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope aboard the SRG observatory during the first two years of its all-sky X-ray survey in 2020--2021. The object is located at $z=0.4389$ and is a type 2 AGN according to optical spectroscopy (SDSS, confirmed by DESI). We combine radio-to-X-ray data, including near-simulta…

Just for the record: In Berufen mit hoher Belastung lebt man drei Jahre kürzer, mit prekären Einkommen sinkt die Lebenserwartung deutlich. Konkret leben Ärmere fünf Jahre (!) kürzer. Das bedeutet, dass viele lange in die Rentenkasse einzahlen und unter Strich nichts davon haben. Nicht nur, weil es eine Rente ist, von der sie nicht leben können, sondern weil sie früher sterben - und damit für besserverdienende Menschen zahlen, die weniger Belastungen ausgesetzt waren.

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
Yuichi Sudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23649 …

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
We study the self-stabilizing leader election (SS-LE) problem in the population protocol model, assuming exact knowledge of the population size $n$. Burman, Chen, Chen, Doty, Nowak, Severson, and Xu (PODC 2021) showed that this problem can be solved in $O(n)$ expected time with $O(n)$ states. Recently, Gąsieniec, Grodzicki, and Stachowiak (PODC 2025) proved that $n+O(\log n)$ states suffice to achieve $O(n \log n)$ time both in expectation and with high probability (w.h.p.). If substantially m…

Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Note on the interpretation of magnetic diffraction in NdAlSi: helical or fan?
Takashi Kurumaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04000 https://

Note on the interpretation of magnetic diffraction in NdAlSi: helical or fan?
We revisit the magnetic structure analysis reported in Nat. Mater. 20, 1650 (2021), which concluded that a Weyl semimetal candidate NdAlSi hosts a helical magnetic order. This conclusion was based on magnetic neutron diffraction peaks corresponding to modulation vectors $\vec{k}_{in} = (1/3, 1/3, 0)$ and $\vec{k}_{out} = (2/3, 2/3, 0)$, attributed to in-plane and out-of-plane components of the magnetic moments, respectively. Upon careful reanalysis, we suggest that a fan-type magnetic structure…

Milk: Make Your Own Mind Up - (2021) Full Documentary #AnimalRights #milk

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo Hosts: Nathan and Mariana Category: TV & Movies Sub-Category: After Shows & Reality TV First Episode: 2021 Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo is a place where you can hear no…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13191 has been replaced.
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Moment-sos and spectral hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the sphere and quantum de Finetti theorems
We revisit the convergence analysis of two approximation hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the unit sphere. The first one is based on the moment-sos approach and gives semidefinite bounds for which Fang and Fawzi (2021) showed an analysis in $O(1/r^2)$ for the r-th level bound, using the polynomial kernel method. The second hierarchy was recently proposed by Lovitz and Johnston (2023) and gives spectral bounds for which they show a convergence rate in $O(1/r)$, using a quantum de Finet…

I understand why sensible people say not to trust "answers" from AI/LLM but I don't understand why they then act like that invalidates the usefulness of LLMs.
abbv dividends 2021 through 2025?
Answer for some reason lists a chart for Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Then lists a chart showing dividends for ABBV by year (including quarterly payment amounts).
I can see those amounts are close (probably exactly right...) and for my quick estimate good enough.

"No Manuscript"
- piano improvisations -
- from blizzard to calm -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

No Manuscript #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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-

Source: Chime's IPO is expected to price at ~$11B, down from its $25B private valuation in 2021; every VC-backed IPO in the past 12 months has been a down round (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/every-vc-ba…

Every VC-Backed IPO in the Past 12 Months Has Been a Down Round
When banking app Chime goes public next month, it will mark the eighth straight venture capital–backed initial public offering in the past 12 months to be valued less than it was in private fundraising rounds. Chime, for instance, was valued at $25 billion in 2021, but its bankers have been ...

Что нужно знать о порядочности Дурова:
Забанить канал координации кандидатов в России во время выборов — так точно, тов. майор! :blobcatsalute:
Забанить канал координации кандидатов в Румынии во время выборов — мы не позволим разрушать демократию. Твердо и четко! :blobancap:
https://t.me/durov_russia/34

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13117 has been replaced.
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Faster, Deterministic and Space Efficient Subtrajectory Clustering
Given a trajectory $T$ and a distance $Δ$, we wish to find a set $C$ of curves of complexity at most $\ell$, such that we can cover $T$ with subcurves that each are within Fréchet distance $Δ$ to at least one curve in $C$. We call $C$ an $(\ell,Δ)$-clustering and aim to find an $(\ell,Δ)$-clustering of minimum cardinality. This problem variant was introduced by Akitaya $et$ $al.$ (2021) and shown to be NP-complete. The main focus has therefore been on bicriteria approximation algorithms, a…

Vintage NPOI: New and Updated Angular Diameters for 145 Stars
Ellyn K. Baines, James H. Clark III, Bradley I. Kingsley, Henrique R. Schmitt, Jordan M. Stone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02912

Vintage NPOI: New and Updated Angular Diameters for 145 Stars
We present new or updated angular diameters, physical radii, and effective temperatures for 145 stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer data archive. We used data from 1996 to late-2021, and we describe the differences between early and late data, which hinge upon an update of the beam combiner in 2002. We came across several sub-categories of stars of interest: 13 of our stars are promising targets for the Habitable World Observatory and therefore require as much study as possible…

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…

London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity raise since launching in 2021 (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)
https://siliconcanals.com/dojo-secures-investment-of-e168-6m/

UK’s payments tech provider Dojo secures investment of €168.6M
Dojo is a payments technology provider that aims to expand its presence in the payments sector with a focus on supporting in-person commerce.

from my link log —
Faster remainder by multiplication, with applications to compilers and software libraries.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01961
saved 2021-05-23

Faster Remainder by Direct Computation: Applications to Compilers and Software Libraries
On common processors, integer multiplication is many times faster than integer division. Dividing a numerator n by a divisor d is mathematically equivalent to multiplication by the inverse of the divisor (n / d = n x 1/d). If the divisor is known in advance---or if repeated integer divisions will be performed with the same divisor---it can be beneficial to substitute a less costly multiplication for an expensive division. Currently, the remainder of the division by a constant is computed from…

"Electric buses don't like the cold, study finds"
#PublicTransport #Buses #EV #ElectricVehicles

Electric buses don't like the cold, study finds
In 2021, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) in Ithaca received a grant to procure seven all-electric buses and began a pilot program that didn't go as they'd hoped. In addition to issues with the manufacturers, the buses struggled in Ithaca's hilly terrain and were unreliable, with reduced range, in cold weather.

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24091

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
The Environmental Governance and Data Initiative (EDGI) regularly crawled US federal environmental websites between 2016 and 2020 to capture changes between two presidential administrations. However, because it does not include the previous administration ending in 2008, the collection is unsuitable for answering our research question, Were the website terms deleted by the Trump administration (2017--2021) added by the Obama administration (2009--2017)? Thus, like many researchers using the Way…

Regalo #llibres tècnics, preferiblement a #Osona / #Vic , però les poblacions de #Catalunya al voltant de la R3 fins a #Barcelona també les considero (no tinc cotxe i no vull haver d'enviar paquets).
La editorial va cometre alguns errors i en tinc duplicats. Els que regalo:
- Math for Security
- The Shape of Data
- Statistics Done Wrong
- The Rust Programming Language (2021 Edition)
Si pot ser prefereixo que els receptors siguin gent que no es pugui permetre gaires luxes, per motius d'equitat.
S'agreixen reenviaments d'aquest missatge :) .
#Giveaway #donation #Donació

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04265 has been replaced.
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On Extrapolation of Treatment Effects in Multiple-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs typically identify the treatment effect at a single cutoff point, which may not always be the primary interest. When and how, then, can we learn about treatment effects away from the cutoff? This paper addresses this question within a multiple-cutoff RD framework. We begin by examining the plausibility of the constant bias assumption proposed by Cattaneo, Keele, Titiunik, and Vazquez-Bare (2021) through the lens of rational decision-making behavior. We argu…

Что нужно знать о порядочности Дурова:
Забанить канал координации кандидатов в России во время выборов — так точно, тов. майор! :blobcatsalute:
Забанить канал координации кандидатов в Румынии во время выборов — мы не позволим разрушать демократию. Твердо и четко! :blobancap:
https://t.me/durov_russia/34

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13881 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The machine learning platform for developers of large systems
The machine learning system in the form of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has developed steadily since about 2021. RAG could be observed as a version of the knowledge transfer. In the studied case, the large computing systems are observed as the application point of RAG, which includes large language model (LLM), as a partner for the developing team. Such an approach has advantages during the development process and further in exploitation time.

I'm giving away some technical #books, preferably around #Osona / #Vic , but any #Catalonia town around the R3 line down to #Barcelona is also ok. I don't have a car and I'd prefer not having to package and send them.
The publisher made some mistakes so I have duplicates, the ones I'm giving away:
- Math for Security
- The Shape of Data
- Statistics Done Wrong
- The Rust Programming Language (2021 Edition)
I'd also prefer giving it to people who can't afford buying expensive books often, for economical fairness reasons.
⁨#Giveaway⁩ ⁨#donation⁩ #bookstodon #freebooks

#Regalo ⁨#libros técnicos, preferiblement en #Osona⁩ / ⁨#Vic⁩ , pero los pueblos de ⁨#Catalunya⁩ alrededor de la R3 hasta ⁨#Barcelona⁩ también los considero (no tengo coche y no quiero tener que enviar paquetes).
La editorial cometió algunos errores y tengo duplicados. Los que regalo:
- Math for Security
- The Shape of Data
- Statistics Done Wrong
- The Rust Programming Language (2021 Edition)
A poder ser prefiero donar a quien por lo general no pueda permitirse muchos lujos, por motivos de equidad.
⁨#Giveaway⁩ ⁨#donation⁩ ⁨#Donación