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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

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.

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…

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…

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

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 ...

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Taughannock Falls inspiration
#waterfall #PhotoSeries
https://muz4now.com/2021/inspiration-f

Taughannock Falls inspiration
Stan Stewart finds inspiration -- again -- at Taughannock Falls State Park in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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…

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…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
[1/1]:
- FlowMalTrans: Unsupervised Binary Code Translation for Malware Detection Using Flow-Adapter Archi...
Minghao Hu, Junzhe Wang, Weisen Zhao, Qiang Zeng, Lannan Luo

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…

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…

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 KEXP's #DriveTime
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

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.

A direct approach to tree-guided feature aggregation for high-dimensional regression
Jinwen Fu, Aaron J. Molstad, Hui Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19650 https://

A direct approach to tree-guided feature aggregation for high-dimensional regression
In high-dimensional linear models, sparsity is often exploited to reduce variability and achieve parsimony. Equi-sparsity, where one assumes that predictors can be aggregated into groups sharing the same effects, is an alternative parsimonious structure that can be more suitable in certain applications. Previous work has clearly demonstrated the benefits of exploiting equi-sparsity in the presence of ``rare features'' (Yan and Bien 2021). In this work, we propose a new tree-guided regularizatio…

A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021 (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 22. Juli 2021 kam es im englischen #KKW #Heysham 1 zu einem Ausfall der 400-kV-Stromversorgung durch einen außerhalb des Kraftwerks gelegenen Transformators. Beide Reaktoren schalteten sich automatisch ab und die Notkühlung wurde musste aktiviert werden.

Tutorial: $\varphi$-Transductions in OpenFst via the Gallic Semiring
Marco Cognetta, Cyril Allauzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17942 https://

Tutorial: $φ$-Transductions in OpenFst via the Gallic Semiring
OpenFst, a popular finite-state transducer library, supports $φ$-transitions but, due to an implementation constraint, they cannot be used with transducers in a straightforward way. In this short tutorial, we describe how one can use other functionality provided by OpenFst (namely, the Gallic semiring) to correctly implement $φ$-transductions and demonstrate it by implementing the MaxMatch (WordPiece) tokenization algorithm (Devlin et al., 2019; Song et al., 2021). Accompanying self-contain…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

FriendliAI, which aims to help companies run AI model inference faster and cheaper, raised a $20M extension to its $6M seed fund from late 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/inference-platform-friendliai-raises-seed…

Exclusive: FriendliAI Raises $20M Seed Extension To Grow AI Inference Platform
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup that provides “last mile” artificial intelligence engagement, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News in this exclusive.

Timing and spectral variability in 2S 1417-624 observed with Insight-HXMT
Qi Liu, Lingda Kong, Can G\"ung\"or, Lorenzo Ducci, Long Ji, Wei Wang, Xiaohang Dai, Andrea Santangelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13557

Timing and spectral variability in 2S 1417-624 observed with Insight-HXMT
We present the results of the spectral and timing analyses of the accreting X-ray pulsar, 2S 1417-624, during the 2018 and 2021 outbursts with Insight-HXMT. We find that the pulse profiles in all energy bands exhibit clear double-peaked structures at low flux states. In the 1-10 keV band, the pulse profiles evolve from double to triple peaks at a flux level of $\sim$4.1$\ \times \ 10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, and from triple to quadruple peaks at $\sim$6.4$\ \times \ 10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ …

Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885 and surpassing its November 2021 record of $4,866.01 after Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted at rate cuts (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/crypto-market-today.html

Ether notches first new record since 2021 after Powell speech teasing rate cuts
The price of ether smashed through its 2021 record on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted at upcoming rate cuts.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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