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Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

📸 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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Bardo Pond:
🎵 Be a Fish
#BardoPond
https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/track/be-a-fish-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yGcbBTvCkYcKNH3390jZc

We watched one episode of High Potential (2024), liked it a lot, and then saw at the end credits that it's based on the French HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021). So we watched episode 1 of THAT.
It's fascinating to note the differences. The plots are basically identical, so the differences are nuance.
https://www.

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go

Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

Ravens trade Odafe Oweh to Chargers in exchange for safety Alohi Gilman: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6698102/2025/10/07/ravens-chargers-trade-odafe-oweh-alohi-gilman/

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Rui Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08051

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Around the mean dimensions and rate-distortion functions, using some tools from local entropy theory this paper establishes the following main results: $(1)$ We prove that for non-ergodic measures associated with almost sure processes, the mean Rényi information dimension coincides with the information dimension rate. This answers a question posed by Gutman and Śpiewak (in Around the variational principle for metric mean dimension, \emph{Studia Math.} \textbf{261}(2021) 345-360). $(2)$ We…

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…

An old thread about a 2021 project (incl. animations) for #TilingTuesday...
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111510598139643775

For those interested in learning more about the Galleanisti, it's worth digging in to understand the context, IMHO. Like I said, I think that insurrectionary anarchism is generally a pretty bad strategy. I have quite a few critiques, that I won't go into now. But I also think it's worth understanding that part of history and how it all came together.
https://attackthesystem.com/2021/06/05/and-they-called-them-galleanisti/

De overheid en trackers ...
DigiD maar eens in de herhaling als ik de app toevallig opnieuw installeer en t weer opvalt.
Bedrijf: Functional Software
(Wie daar dan ook achter zit... Het aantal treffers is eindeloos.)
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#Overheid #Trackers

from my link log —
How to handle secrets on the command line.
https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/
saved 2021-06-13 https://

How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

Bully talking to bully...
I hope that it will help the people in Gaza and West Bank...
Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative"
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/05/trump-netanyahu-call-gaza-peace-deal-hamas

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
Giuseppe Pagano Giorgianni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03792 https://arxiv.org…

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
This paper examines how natural gas price shocks affect Italian firms' pricing decisions and inflation expectations using quarterly survey data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Inflation and Growth Expectations (SIGE) spanning 1999Q4-2025Q2. We identify natural gas price shocks through a Bayesian VAR with sign and zero restrictions. Our findings reveal that these shocks are a primary driver of firms' inflation expectations, particularly during the post-COVID period (2021-2023) when supply dis…

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

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-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

"In Al-Mughayyir, a village near Ramallah, more than 3,000 olive trees were bulldozed by Israeli forces, part of a broader pattern of destruction. Similarly, Deir Ballout has been targeted once again. It’s where, in 2021, Zaytoun customers helped plant 2,000 olive trees with the Palestine Fair Trade Association to replace those previously destroyed by Israeli forces."
Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun

Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun
As the olive harvest commences this month, the outlook is grim. A number of forces are converging in real time: a poor harvest, soaring local prices, and a fragile economy already on the brink, all dealing a harsh blow to farmers who are contending with so much.

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

Trump maintains control over and can profit from his businesses while in office through a revocable trust, of which he is both the sole donor and sole beneficiary.
In his first term, those looking to support Trump financially could lend him money against his real estate, license his name, buy his assets, join one of his clubs or book a hotel.
Since leaving office in 2021, Trump’s business empire expanded into the digital realm, where the products are often intangible, but the rev…

Truth Social, the $Trump meme coin and World Liberty Financial Give Supporters And Favor Seekers New Ways To Pay Trump
Foreign firms, crypto whales and political allies are using Trump’s newest ventures to route millions into companies he profits from while in office.

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines #environment

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26% decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40%.

An Economic Analysis of Electricity Consumption and Electric Vehicle Adoption in California from 2010 to 2021
Pufan Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02530 https://

An Economic Analysis of Electricity Consumption and Electric Vehicle Adoption in California from 2010 to 2021
This paper examines the impact of electric vehicles on total annual electricity consumption across 58 counties in California from 2010 to 2021. Employing a log linear model to analyze the relationship between electricity consumption and EV ownership, alongside a linear log model with an instrumental variable approach, the study finds that annual per capita electricity consumption increased by 0.23% for each additional electric vehicle per 10,000 residents over the 12 years period. The analysis …

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/south-korea-fines-sk-telecom-us-97m-over-data-breach/

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
South Korea’s regulator fined SK Telecom US$97M over a data breach affecting 23.2M users, citing weak safeguards dating back to 2021.

såg ofta butterfly på lekplatserna när jag var föräldraledig, lite för ofta skulle jag säga, extremt ofta, deras ekonomiska strategi verkar vara att använda kommunens offentliga lekplatser som avlastningsyta för att slippa betala för egna lokaler, vilket tär på våra gemensamma resurser, glad att de inte får nytt tillstånd www.mitti.se/nyheter/nej-till-privat-forskola-i-ragsved-6.3.325639.9606f7a3e2
EDIT: Se bild, det funkar!

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…

Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to Packers: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6582707/2025/08/28/micah-parsons-trade-packers-cowboys-nfl-2025/

#catcontent meets #RDM: "A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects" https://zenodo.org/records/16925229

I watched E.T. (1982) recently. I remember seeing it as a kid but couldn't remember much except "phone home". I didn't like the child actors to be honest but the rubber puppet worked so well when it was lying on its "death bed" 😭
Surprised by the swear words they used though. Shit, dick....🫢 I wanted to see what the neighbourhood looks like today as it was a newly built suburbia in 1982. Turns out, somebody already did the research!

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…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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…

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

Horizon-scale variability of M87* from 2017--2021 EHT observations
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24593 https://arxiv…

Horizon-scale variability of M87* from 2017--2021 EHT observations
We report three epochs of polarized images of M87* at 230\,GHz using data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) taken in 2017, 2018, and 2021. The baseline coverage of the 2021 observations is significantly improved through the addition of two new EHT stations: the 12\,m Kitt Peak Telescope and the Northern Extended Millimetre Array (NOEMA). All observations result in images dominated by a bright, asymmetric ring with a persistent diameter of $43.9\pm 0.6\,\muas$, consistent with expectations …

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Operation not permitted probably because the ESP-related mount was unnecessary (it already existed).
Check the default /etc/fstab
This 2021 commit might be the milestone first of a series of commits that simplified things:

Bi-Lipschitz embedding properties of lamplighter graphs on weighted and unweighted trees
Charlotte Melby, Beata Randrianantoanina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25421 https://

Bi-Lipschitz embedding properties of lamplighter graphs on weighted and unweighted trees
In 2021 Baudier, Motakis, Schlumprecht, and Zsák proved that if a sequence of graphs $(G_k)_{k\in{\mathbb{N}}}$ contains the sequence of complete graphs with uniformly bounded distortion, then the sequence of lamplighter graphs on $G_k$'s contains Hamming cubes with uniformly bounded distortion and asked whether the converse holds. They suggested that a sequence of trees with edges replaced by paths of ``moderately growing'' lengths may be a counterexample. We prove that indeed this is the…

Imagine buying hardware, which runs faster after 4 years than it did when you bought it. Meanwhile, in Windows land, Benchmarks often show that Windows 10 runs faster than Windows 11.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-515-617-performance

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Guy Mor-Lan, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Yael R. Kaplan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15483

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts and expressed through particular uses of language, existing datasets for group and identity detection are predominantly English-centric, single-label and focus on coarse identity categories. We introduce HebID, the first multilabel Hebrew corpus for social identity detection: 5,536 sentences from Israeli politicians' Facebook posts (Dec 2018-Apr 2021), manually…

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

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.

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang, Yuan-Ming Hsu, Brandt Kaufmann, Chaitanya Pasupala, S. Banka, A. Dey, D. Lang, A. Meisner, J. Moustakas, A. D. Myers, E. F. Schlafly, D. J. Schlegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.2008…

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is the fourth in a series of searches (following Huang et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2021; Storfer et al. 2024, Paper I, II, & III respectively). This is the first catalog of lens candidates covering nearly the entirety of the extragalactic sky south of declination $δ\approx +32$ deg, all of it observed by the DECam, coveri…

Measurement of the branching fraction of $\psip \to \omega \eta \eta$
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Measurement of the branching fraction of $\psip \to ωηη$
Using a sample of (2.712 $\pm$ 0.014)$\times 10^{9}$ $\psip$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider in 2009, 2012, and 2021, the decay $\psip \to ωηη$ is observed for the first time. The branching fraction of the $ψ(3686)\toωηη$ decay is measured to be (1.65 $\pm$ 0.02 $\pm$ 0.21)$\times 10^{-5}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. Clear structures associated with the well-established $ω(1420)$ and $f_{0}(1710)$ resonances are…

Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to Packers: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6582707/2025/08/28/micah-parsons-trade-packers-cowboys-nfl-2025/

Who Would the Raiders Take in a 2021 Redraft? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-alex-leatherwood-spencer-brown-divine-deablo-pete-carroll

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1093815 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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…

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

"En moyenne, 15 substances sont quantifiées dans l’eau de mer par site de suivi. Les trois quarts des 66 substances recherchées dans l’eau marine apparaissent au moins une fois."
Et en premier, on retrouve les HERBICIDES évidemment... Visiblement, ça n'a pas d'effet sur les algues vertes donc on va peut-être penser Š lever le pied hein ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Des pesticides et des substances pharmaceutiques relevés sur l’ensemble du littoral français
De 2021 à 2024, les scientifiques de l’Ifremer et du laboratoire EPOC, rattaché entre autres au CNRS, ont recherché dans l’eau de mer et dans des mollusques la présence d’une centaine de contaminants.

Frequency-Aware Ensemble Learning for BraTS 2025 Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation
Yuxiao Yi, Qingyao Zhuang, Zhi-Qin John Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19353 https://

Frequency-Aware Ensemble Learning for BraTS 2025 Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation
Pediatric brain tumor segmentation presents unique challenges due to the rarity and heterogeneity of these malignancies, yet remains critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. We propose an ensemble approach integrating nnU-Net, Swin UNETR, and HFF-Net for the BraTS-PED 2025 challenge. Our method incorporates three key extensions: adjustable initialization scales for optimal nnU-Net complexity control, transfer learning from BraTS 2021 pre-trained models to enhance Swin UNETR's gen…

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
Masaaki Nagata, Katsuki Chousa, Norihito Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16303 https://

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
We constructed JaParaPat (Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus), a bilingual corpus of more than 300 million Japanese-English sentence pairs from patent applications published in Japan and the United States from 2000 to 2021. We obtained the publication of unexamined patent applications from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We also obtained patent family information from the DOCDB, that is a bibliographic database maintained…

from my link log —
Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress to monitor sleep stages and more, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/eight-sleep-grabs-100m-to-bring-ai-into-y…

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech | TechCrunch
The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.

📸 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…

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mursal Dawodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20406

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
For nearly two decades after 2001, Afghanistan's higher education sector expanded rapidly, with Kabul University serving as a central site of women's academic participation. Drawing on administrative records of student populations from 2016-2019 (Islamic calendar 1395-1398), this study examines gender distributions across shifts, faculties, and departments, with particular attention to STEM versus non-STEM fields. At Kabul University, the morning shift refers to the main daytime cohort (includi…

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…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/QBFGeTE
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…

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfv\'en Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
Samuel T. Badman, Michael L. Stevens, Stuart D. Bale, Yeimy J. Rivera, Kristopher G. Klein, Tatiana Niembro, Rohit Chhiber, Ali Rahmati, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Roberto Livi, Davin E. Larson, Christopher J. Owen, Kristoff W. Paulson, Timothy S. Horbury, Jean Morris, Helen O'Brien, Jean-Baptiste Dakeyo, Jaye L. Verniero, Mihailo Martinovic, Marc Pulupa, Federico Fraschetti…

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfvén Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
The geometry of a star's Alfvén surface determines stellar angular momentum loss, separates a causally distinct 'corona' and stellar wind, and potentially affects exoplanetary habitability. The solar Alfvén surface is the only such structure that is directly measurable and since 2021, has been routinely measured in situ by NASA's Parker Solar Probe (Parker). We use these unique measurements in concert with Solar Orbiter and L1 in situ data spanning the first half of the Solar Cycle 25 in time…

"Rich-Get-Richer"? Analyzing Content Creator Earnings Across Large Social Media Platforms
Ilan Strauss, Jangho Yang, Mariana Mazzucato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26523

"Rich-Get-Richer"? Analyzing Content Creator Earnings Across Large Social Media Platforms
This paper examines whether monthly content creator earnings follow a power law distribution, driven by compounding 'rich-get-richer' dynamics (Barabasi and Albert 1999). Patreon creator earnings data for 2018, 2021, and 2024 for Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Patreon exhibit a power law exponent around $α= 2$. This suggests that algorithmic systems generate unequalizing returns closer to highly concentrated capital income and wealth, rather than labor income. Platforms gov…

Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-has-returned

Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm's Founding in 2009
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.

from my link log —
Linux desktop on Apple Silicon M1 in practice.
https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5
saved 2021-03-03

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice
Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Trevon Diggs' Cowboys career is heading toward an inevitable outcome https://insidethestar.com/trevon-diggs-cowboys-career-is-heading-toward-an-inevitable-outcome

Jon Gruden vs. NFL lawsuit: Nevada Supreme Court sides with former coach in ongoing battle vs. league

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jon-gru

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
Arkadiusz Lipiecki, Kaja Bilinska, Nicolaos Kourentzes, Rafal Weron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11372

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
We introduce the concept of temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF) in predicting day-ahead electricity prices and show that reconciling forecasts for hourly products, 2- to 12-hour blocks, and baseload contracts significantly (up to 13%) improves accuracy at all levels. These results remain consistent throughout a challenging 4-year test period (2021-2024) in the German power market and across model architectures, including linear regression, a shallow neural network, gradient boosting, and a s…

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
Sujoy Majumder, Nabadwip Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10275 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
In the paper, we investigate the uniqueness problem of entire function concerning its derivative and shift and obtain two results. On of our result solves the open problem posed by Majumder et al. (On a conjecture of Li and Yang, Hiroshima Math. J., 53 (2023), 199-223) and the other result improves and generalizes the recent result due to Huang and Fang (Unicity of entire functions concerning their shifts and derivatives, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 21 (2021), 523-532) in a large extend.

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
Zhicun Liu, Xiao-Long Wang, Wenyuan Cui, Jianrong Shi, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Min Fang, Yang Huang, Guozhen Hu, Gang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07599

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
OB associations, as an intermediate stage between Galactic clusters and field stars, play an important role in understanding the star formation process, early stellar evolution, and Galactic evolution. In this work, we construct a large sample of OB stars with 6D phase space parameters ($l, b, d, V_{\rm los}, pmra ,pmdec$) by combining the distances from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021), radial velocities derived from low-resolution spectra of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Teles…

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15524 https://

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We curate and manually annotate a novel Hebrew-language corpus of 10,410 sentences drawn from Knesset speeches (1993-2023), Facebook posts (2018-2021), and leading news outlets, of which 1,812 instances (17.4\%) exhibit PDD and 642 carry additional annotations for intensity, incivility, target type, and affective framing…

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-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

Multiwavelength study of Galactic PeVatron LHAASO J0341 5258
P. Bangale (for the VERITAS Collaboration), X. Wang (for the HAWC Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20515 ht…

Multiwavelength study of Galactic PeVatron LHAASO J0341+5258
Galactic PeVatrons are astrophysical sources accelerating particles up to a few PeV (~10$^{15}$ eV). The primary method to identify both electron and proton PeVatrons is the observation of $γ$-ray radiation at ultra-high energies (UHE; E$>$100 TeV). In 2021, LHAASO detected 14 steady $γ$-ray sources with photon energies above 100 TeV and up to 1.4 PeV. Most of these sources can be plausibly associated with objects such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and stellar clusters. However,…

from my link log —
Rust programs written entirely in Rust, without libc.
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/rust-programs-entirely-in-rust/
saved 2021-09-08

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

Modeling pandemics
John F. Dawson, Fred Cooper, Efstathios G. Charalampidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15125 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15125

Modeling pandemics
We review several models for pandemics that plagued the USA and the world in the past decade. Methods of data fitting are reviewed and several types of microscopic and rate equation models are discussed and numerically solved. This paper was written in March of 2021 and newer data is now available; however some of the models and techniques we used to numerically study these models are still of interest. Several appendices discuss in detail these models.

Pressure dependent structure of neat liquid methanol, CH3OH: molecular dynamics simulations with various united atom type potentials
Imre Bak\'o, L\'aszl\'o Pusztai, Orest Pizio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12834

Pressure dependent structure of neat liquid methanol, CH3OH: molecular dynamics simulations with various united atom type potentials
Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been conducted on neat liquid methanol, using three different united atom (three site) interatomic potentials: TraPPE [J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 3093 (2001)], UAM-I [J. Mol. Liq. 323, 114576 (2021)] and OPLS/2016 [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 034508 (2016)]. The effects of pressure, between 1 bar and 6 kbar, have been evaluated on total scattering structure factors, partial radial distribution functions, as well as on collective characteristics such as ring size …

51 yr old founding member of #Mastodon dead in #ATL #Motorcycle crash.
#BrentHinds, 51, who left reigning stoner metal band in a less than …

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…

Gruden eager to find 'truth' in NFL emails case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45960156/jon-gruden-eager-discover-truth-nfl-emails-lawsuit

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Poulami Paul, Chanchal Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0918…

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Uncertainty in past lifetime distributions and the timing of inactivity in systems and their components can be effectively measured using the fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (FGCPE) and its dynamic extension (DFGCPE), introduced by Di Crescenzo et al. (2021). Building on this framework, we propose a quantile-based variant, the quantile fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (QFGCPE), along with its dynamic time-dependent counterpart (DQFGCPE). Closed-form expressions of t…

Good Morning #Canada
I've been a bachelor since Thursday as my wife is in Toronto helping my daughter with her latest chemo session. She's back late Monday when life, for me, returns to normal. According to #StatsCan, being married at our age (late 60s) is the most prevalent relationship. But Canadians in younger age brackets are more likely these days to be living common-law and getting married later in life, if at all. Canada has one of the highest rates of common-law relationships worldwide and the highest in the G7. Between 1981 and 2021, common-law couples increased 447% while the number of married couples grew by only 26%. Common-law unions are most prevalent in Nunavut (52%), Quebec (43%), and the Northwest Territories (36%). It's no surprise that more than half of Canadians believe that marriage is not necessary, and even less surprising that this opinion is stronger with young men versus young women.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Relationship
https://madeinca.ca/marriage-statistics-canada/

📸 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…

TPSQLi: Test Prioritization for SQL Injection Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications
Guan-Yan Yang, Farn Wang, You-Zong Gu, Ya-Wen Teng, Kuo-Hui Yeh, Ping-Hsueh Ho, Wei-Ling Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10920

TPSQLi: Test Prioritization for SQL Injection Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications
The rapid proliferation of network applications has led to a significant increase in network attacks. According to the OWASP Top 10 Projects report released in 2021, injection attacks rank among the top three vulnerabilities in software projects. This growing threat landscape has increased the complexity and workload of software testing, necessitating advanced tools to support agile development cycles. This paper introduces a novel test prioritization method for SQL injection vulnerabilities to…

Probing the energy-dependent temporal nature of MAXI J1803-298 with AstroSat and NICER
Arbind Pradhan, Akash Garg, Ranjeev Misra, Biplob Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07843 …

Probing the energy-dependent temporal nature of MAXI J1803-298 with AstroSat and NICER
We performed the spectral and temporal analysis of MAXI J1803-298 using AstroSat/LAXPC and NICER observations taken in May 2021 during the initial phase of the outburst. We found that the source traverses through the hard, intermediate, and soft spectral states during the outburst. The spectrum in all states can be described using soft emissions from the thermal disk and hard emissions from the coronal regions. The variation in the inner disk temperature and normalization of the disk indicates …

The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech stocks, rose ~3.9% to its highest level since November 2021, amid renewed AI enthusiasm (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Gruden wins key Nevada ruling in NFL emails suit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45949298/nevada-high-court-sides-ex-raiders-coach-jon-gruden-nfl-emails-lawsuit

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/4AvErOg
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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…

Gravitational Recoil and Suppression of Super Massive Black Hole Seeds in the Early Universe
Bisweswar Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10564 https://arxiv.o…

Gravitational Recoil and Suppression of Super Massive Black Hole Seeds in the Early Universe
We investigate the impact of gravitational-wave (GW) recoil on the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe. Forming ~10^9 Msun SMBHs by z ~ 6 is challenging and may require hierarchical mergers of smaller seed black holes. We extend a semi-analytic seed model (Sassano et al. 2021) by explicitly incorporating GW recoil physics. Our model includes: (1) recoil velocity formulae calibrated to numerical relativity for spinning, unequal-mass BH binaries (Campanelli et al. 200…

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
Maxwell Fogler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10780 https://ar…

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
This paper investigates the trade-off that households in agrarian economies face between immediate production needs and long-term human capital investment. We ask how exogenous agricultural productivity shocks affect primary and secondary school enrollment in Rwanda, a country characterized by a heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture alongside ambitious development goals. Using a district-level panel dataset for the years 2010-2021, we employ a two-stage least squares (2SLS) instrumental variab…

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 …

Estimating Global HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: A Cross-Population Hierarchical Modeling Approach
Jiahao Zhang, Keith Sabin, Le Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10664 https:/…

Estimating Global HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: A Cross-Population Hierarchical Modeling Approach
Key populations at high risk of HIV infection are critical for understanding and monitoring HIV epidemics, but global estimation is hampered by sparse, uneven data. We analyze data from 199 countries for female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), and people who inject drugs (PWID) over 2011-2021, and introduce a cross-population hierarchical model that borrows strength across countries, years, and populations. The model combines region- and population-specific means with country…