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Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-hi…

Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.

Of Holidays and Puppy Love https://muz4now.com/2021/of-holidays-and-puppy-love/

Of Holidays and Puppy Love
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1114359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

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

The disclosure of a SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea in 2019 has heightened interest in
when the executive branch must tell congressional oversight committees about important military and intelligence operations.
The Trump administration did not inform Congress of what happened.
But in 2021, the Biden administration decided to brief top congressional officials.
The difference in approach raises the question of whether the Trump team improperly or illegally withheld…

Trump Didn’t Notify Congress About a High-Stakes SEALs Mission. That Could Be an Issue.
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

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…

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

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03692

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Since its first iteration in 2018, the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) continues to rise in popularity as an interactive lifelog data retrieval competition, co-located at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR). The goal of this annual live event is to search a large corpus of lifelogging data for specifically announced memories using a purposefully developed tool within a limited amount of time. As long-standing participants, we present our improved lifeXplore - a retrie…

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

Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas winter storm
Melissa Butler, Alisha Khan, Francis Afrifa, Yingjie Hu, Dane Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03642

Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas winter storm
Understanding human mobility during disastrous events is crucial for emergency planning and disaster management. Here, we develop a methodology involving the construction of time-varying, multilayer networks in which edges encode observed movements between spatial regions (census tracts) and network layers encode different movement categories according to industry sectors (e.g., visitations to schools, hospitals, and grocery stores). This approach provides a rich characterization of human mobil…

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/ai-p

AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA | TechCrunch
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) 2.0: A reflective, multi-wavelength rebuild
Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Vincent Chambouleyron, Prince Javier, Daren Dillon, Emiel H. Por, Benjamin Calvin, Sylvain Cetre, Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, Tara Crowe, Jordan Diaz, Caleb Dobias, David Doelman, Stephen Eikenberry, J. Fowler, Benjamin L. Gerard, Phil Hinz, Renate Kupke, Ashai Moreno, Tiffany Nguyen, Maissa Salama, Aditya R. Sengupta, Nour Skaf, Frans Snik

The Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL) 2.0: A reflective, multi-wavelength rebuild
The Santa cruz Extreme Adaptive optics Lab (SEAL) is a visible/near-infrared wavelength testbed designed to support technology development for high contrast imaging on large, segmented, ground-based telescopes. SEAL saw first light in 2021 as a transmissive, visible-wavelength AO testbed. In this paper, we present four major upgrades to SEAL: (1) the testbed has been rebuilt with custom off-axis parabolic mirrors, enabling operation in both near-infrared and visible wavelengths; (2) the suite o…

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04307

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
While tourism is widely regarded as a catalyst for economic and urban transformation, its effects on land prices remain contested. This study examines tourism and land prices using a panel of 1,724 Japanese municipalities from 2021 to 2024, with annual tourist arrivals as a proxy for tourism activity. Using mediation analysis and panel threshold regression, we show that sizable land price increases are concentrated in a small group of "superstar" cities, specifically those in the top 5.9 percen…

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.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
Marouan Handa, Marek Tyburec, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Victor Magron, Michal Ko\v{c}vara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02849

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
The Arrow Decomposition (AD) technique, initially introduced in [Mathematical Programming 190(1-2) (2021), pp 105-134], demonstrated superior scalability over the classical chordal decomposition in the context of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) if the matrix in question satisfied suitable assumptions. The primary objective of this paper is to extend the AD method to address Polynomial Optimization Problems (POPs) involving large-scale Polynomial Matrix Inequalities (PMIs), with the solution f…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
Xiaohan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02978 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
We obtain some Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary and partially verifies Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021)). For the specific manifold $\mathbb{B}^n$, we present a new proof of this conjecture, which has been resolved by Gu-Li (Math. Ann. 391 (2025)). Our proof is based on a general principle of applying the P-function method to such uniqueness results. As a further app…

Composing a Requiem:
What Is A Requiem?
#Composing #NeoRomantic
https://muz4now.com/2021/composi…

Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas wi...
Melissa Butler, Alisha Khan, Francis Afrifa, Yingjie Hu, Dane Taylor

BMW's iX3 electric SUV, debuting September 5, will be the first in a series of "software-defined vehicle" on its €10B Neue Klasse platform unveiled in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/42250738-f246-4a31-94b4-fd6a894f99ae

Das war schockierend ahnungslos: Esra Limbacher ist direkt gewählter Wahlkreisabgeordneter und seit 2021 im Bundestag und dort stellv. Vorsitzender der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion. Er ist zudem seit 2023 Generalsekretär der SPD Saarland.
Was er gerade im Deutschlandfunk zum Klimaschutz gesagt hat - oder nicht sagen konnte, sollte der SPD Sorgen machen. Hört selbst:

Beschleunigung des Klimawandels? Interview Esra Limbacher, SPD-Fraktions-Vize

Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
#Community #CreativeCommunity
https://muz4now.com/202…

Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Exactly what happened to me a few years back, a $1000 from Jan to Feb. https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/115268053823388595

Andrew Lokenauth (@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image A $400,000 mortgage is $2,500 per month today. A $400,000 mortgage was $1,500 per month in 2021. $1,000 more a month for the same house. Wild.

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
#VirtualInstrument #MusicianTips #banjo

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Yago Lema-Capeans (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25962 https://

Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory
We report on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Surface Detector (SD) data from Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observatory (2004-2021). A total of 570 GRBs occur within the most neutrino-sensitive field of view of the SD, considering both Earth-skimming and downward-going detection channels. For this purpose, GRB neutrino emission has been modeled using the numerical software NeuCosmA, incorporating gamma-ray measurements and inferr…

TIL: Some real plants mimic leaves of artificial plants.
doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2021.1977530 (via #ignobelprize)

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definitions of economic growth that it’s almost a monad, “a most basic substance” that goes without question. In one recent example, Max Roser (2021) defines growth as “an increase in the quantity and quality of the…

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

Optimally building spanning graphs in semirandom graph processes
Michael Anastos, Maur\'icio Collares, Joshua Erde, Mihyun Kang, Dominik Schmid, Gregory B. Sorkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26028

Optimally building spanning graphs in semirandom graph processes
The semirandom graph process constructs a graph $G$ in a series of rounds, starting with the empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a player is offered a vertex $v$ chosen uniformly at random, and chooses an edge on $v$ to add to $G$. The player's aim is to make $G$ satisfy some property as quickly as possible. Our interest is in the property that $G$ contain a given $n$-vertex graph $H$ with maximum degree $Δ$. In 2021, Ben-Eliezer, Gishboliner, Hefetz and Krivelevich showed that there i…

Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldRecording

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

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.

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Wei-Chang Lo, Jih-Chiang Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25932 https://…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Our previous numerical simulation [C.-E. Tsai et al., Physical Review Research 6, 023065 (2024)] has shown that, for soft granular particles under quasistatic shearing, incorporating a speed-dependent friction is a necessary condition for reproducing the rate-dependent stick-slip fluctuations that have been found in laboratory experiments [J.-C. Tsai et al., Physical Review Letters 126, 128001 (2021)]. As a continuation, here we employ the simulation at a wide range of driving speeds to examine…

Heaven - how listening to music transports us https://muz4now.com/2021/heaven-how-listening-to-music-transports-us/

Heaven - how listening to music transports us
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Marcus Mariota Sends Strong Message to Raiders After Commanders Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/marcus-mariota-message-commanders-win/?adt_ei=[email]

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

📢 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.

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

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.

Efficient Polynomial Identity Testing Over Nonassociative Algebras
Partha Mukhopadhyay, C Ramya, Pratik Shastri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11349 https://ar…

Efficient Polynomial Identity Testing Over Nonassociative Algebras
We design the first efficient polynomial identity testing algorithms over the nonassociative polynomial algebra. In particular, multiplication among the formal variables is commutative but it is not associative. This complements the strong lower bound results obtained over this algebra by Hrubeš, Yehudayoff, and Wigderson (2010) and Fijalkow, Lagarde, Ohlmann, and Serre (2021) from the identity testing perspective. Our main results are the following: (1) We construct nonassociative algebras …

Am 25. Oktober um 12 Uhr werden die beiden 161 Meter hohen #Kühltürme des ehemaligen AKW #Gundremmingen gesprengt.
Nach der Abschaltung 2021 markiert dies einen weiteren Schritt im Rückbau.
Rund 11.000 Tonnen Schutt werden erwartet. Die Behörden bereiten sich auf zahlre…

AKW Gundremmingen: Termin für die Sprengung der Kühltürme steht
Auf Nachfrage der Redaktion bestätigt der Betreiber RWE jetzt offiziell: Am Samstag, 25. Oktober, fallen die Kühltürme. Auf Gundremmingen wird einiges zukommen.

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…

Bias correction for Chatterjee's graph-based correlation coefficient
Mona Azadkia, Leihao Chen, Fang Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09040 https://arxiv…

Bias correction for Chatterjee's graph-based correlation coefficient
Azadkia and Chatterjee (2021) recently introduced a simple nearest neighbor (NN) graph-based correlation coefficient that consistently detects both independence and functional dependence. Specifically, it approximates a measure of dependence that equals 0 if and only if the variables are independent, and 1 if and only if they are functionally dependent. However, this NN estimator includes a bias term that may vanish at a rate slower than root-$n$, preventing root-$n$ consistency in general. In …

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields
Kaimin Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06655

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields
Let $q$ be a prime power and $\mathbb{F}_q$ the finite field with $q$ elements. For a positive integer $n$, the binomial $f_n(X):= X^n-1\in\mathbb{F}_q[X]$ is called $3$-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ if each irreducible factor of $f_n(X)$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is either a binomial or a trinomial. In 2021, Oliveira and Reis characterized all positive integers $n$ for which $f_n(X)$ is $3$-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ when $q = 2$ and $q = 4$, and posed the open problem of whether, for any given $q$, th…

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…

Be (5) Yourself
- the classic and modern sounds of the Hammond organ -
#HammondB3 #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.…

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

Vaccinating Now or Vaccinating Later: Separating Pull-Forward and Net Effects Using a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design
Fabio I. Martinenghi, Mesfin Genie, Katie Attwell, Huong Le, Hannah Moore, Aregawi G. Gebremariam, Bette Liu, Francesco Paolucci, Christopher C. Blyth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22714

Vaccinating Now or Vaccinating Later: Separating Pull-Forward and Net Effects Using a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design
We study the impact of a novel COVID-19 vaccine mandate, targeting graduating high-school students, on first vaccine uptake. In 2021, the State Government of Western Australia (WA) required attendees at "Leavers" -- a large-scale state-supported graduation party held annually in November in a WA regional town -- to be vaccinated. Using administrative data that link date-of-birth (at the month level), school attendance, and first-dose vaccination records, we exploit the strict school-age laws in…

Scenes From An Intuitive Journey
#intuition #journey
https://muz4now.com/2021/scenes-from-a

Scenes From An Intuitive Journey
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A Study of Spectral Variability between flaring and non-flaring state in M74 X-1
Aman Upadhyay, Tanuman Ghosh, Vikram Rana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12050 https://

A Study of Spectral Variability between flaring and non-flaring state in M74 X-1
We conducted an extensive long-term spectral and timing study of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M74 X-1, using data taken between 2001 and 2021 by Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observatories. Our analysis shows that flares are present in some observations, whereas they are absent in others. Flaring state exhibits two-component spectra at a lower average flux level, whereas the non-flaring state displays single-component spectra at a higher average flux level. The M74 X-1 spectra are best d…

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…

Description of CRESST-III lithium aluminate data
G. Angloher (CRESST Collaboration), S. Banik (CRESST Collaboration), G. Benato (CRESST Collaboration), A. Bento (CRESST Collaboration), A. Bertolini (CRESST Collaboration), R. Breier (CRESST Collaboration), C. Bucci (CRESST Collaboration), J. Burkhart (CRESST Collaboration), L. Canonica (CRESST Collaboration), A. D'Addabbo (CRESST Collaboration), S. Di Lorenzo (CRESST Collaboration), L. Einfalt (CRESST Collaboration), A. Erb (CRESST …

Description of CRESST-III lithium aluminate data
Two detector modules with lithium aluminate targets were operated in the CRESST underground setup between February and June 2021. The data collected in this period was used to set the currently strongest cross-section upper limits on the spin-dependent interaction of dark matter (DM) with protons and neutrons for the mass region between 0.25 and 1.5 GeV/c$^2$. The data are available online. In this document, we describe how the data set should be used to reproduce our dark matter results.

The impact on health system expenditure in Australia and OECD countries from accelerated NCD mortality decline through prevention or treatment strategies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.4
Bibha Dhungel, Jingjing Yang, Tim Wilson, Samantha Grimshaw, Emily Bourke, Stephanie Khuu, Tony Blakely
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10795…

The impact on health system expenditure in Australia and OECD countries from accelerated NCD mortality decline through prevention or treatment strategies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.4
Background: It is unclear what the relative impacts of prevention or treatment of NCDs are on future health system expenditure. First, we estimated expenditure in Australia for prevention vs treatment pathways to achieve SDG target 3.4. Second, we applied the method to 34 other OECD countries. Methods: We used GBD data to estimate average annual percentage changes in disease incidence, remission, and CFRs from 1990-2021, and projected to 2030 to estimate business-as-usual (BAU) reductions in …

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Polarisation as a probe of neutrino emission from blazars
G. F. Paraschos, E. Traianou, L. C. Debbrecht, I. Liodakis, E. Ros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16929 https://

Polarisation as a probe of neutrino emission from blazars
The source of extragalactic neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range is a matter of very active research, with blazar jets having been postulated to be the origin of at least some of the detections. The blazar PKS 0735+178 is a prominent example; during its multi-band flare in late 2021 a neutrino event was reported by four observatories, with its origin consistent with the direction of that source. While no new jet component was observed to be ejected during that narrow time-frame, our analysis shows th…

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 …

A Bayesian factor analysis model for non-randomised staggered designs
Constantin Schmidt, Shaun R. Seaman, Beatrice Emmanouil, Leila Reid, Stuart Smith, Daniela De Angelis, Pantelis Samartsidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09554

A Bayesian factor analysis model for non-randomised staggered designs
The employment of peer supporter workers starting in 2018 was one of the interventions deployed by National Health Service England as part of its Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination plan. Peers are individuals with relevant lived experience who educate their communities about the virus and promote testing and treatment. In this paper, we assess the causal effect of the peers intervention on HCV patient case-finding, using data on 22 administrative regions from January 2016 to May 2021. To do th…