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from my link log —
Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/03/15/cranelift-isel-3/
saved 2021-03-16

San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/sher

Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service | TechCrunch
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

In 25 Jahren ist der Papierstapel dann abgearbeitet:
Fünf Jahre nach der #Flutkatastrophe 2021 sind laut #Bundesfinanzministerium erst rund 6,2 Milliarden Euro an #Wiederaufbauhilfen

Flut-Katastrophe 2021 - Erst ein Fünftel der Hilfen für Wiederaufbau ausgezahlt
Fünf Jahre nach der Hochwasserkatastrophe im Ahrtal und anderen Regionen Deutschlands ist erst ein Fünftel der Mittel für den Wiederaufbau ausgezahlt worden.

Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
#news

Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
Oscar-winning actor to write and direct fact-based movie that will follow a police officer mixed up in 2021 Capitol riot

Ex-Raiders TE Darren Waller Issues Clear Message on Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-clear-message-jon-gruden/

And this "Save to Recollect" browser extension makes my replacement of Raindrop complete!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-to-recollect/fbmplkcoeijdokdlidejallnpcmiobjk
I used the importer to bulk add from Ra…

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…

from my link log —
Reverse engineering Prodigy.
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2921/reverse-engineering-prodigy-part-1
saved 2021-01-16

Pentagon panel to study 2021 COVID vaccine mandate (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5970694-dod-studies-military-vaccine-policy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p114#a260715p114

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups…

The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MidsummerDreaming
Midsummer Dreaming:
🎵 Nightingales of Berlin (2021)
#MidsummerDreaming

Visibility nowcasting in South Korea: a machine learning approach to class imbalance and distribution shift
Bong Gyun Shin, Chan Sik Lee, Hyesun Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21507
arXiv:2605.21507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Atmospheric visibility is a critical variable for transportation safety and air quality management, however, accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complex interactions between meteorological conditions and air pollutants, as well as the rarity of low-visibility events. This study introduces a machine learning framework to nowcast visibility in six major South Korean cities. To handle the imbalance in the 2018-2020 training data, we applied the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique with Nominal and Continuous (SMOTENC) and Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN). An ensemble approach combining machine learning and deep learning models was then used and evaluated on a 2021 test dataset. The results revealed a marked decline in predictive performance in the test set compared to the cross-validation phase. This degradation was attributed to a distributional shift between training and testing periods, which was quantitatively confirmed by measuring the Wasserstein distance of the most influential feature identified by SHAP analysis. In general, this study presents a methodology that aims to simultaneously address the dual challenges of data imbalance and temporal distributional shifts, and emphasizes the necessity of accounting for evolving external environmental factors when implementing nowcasting models on time-series data.
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from my link log —
Pink Floyd’s Young Lust telephone signalling explained.
https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/pink-floyds-young-lust-explained-and-demystified/
saved 2021-10-16

Honestly, what kind of scam #Akamai / #LInode is? They give you a form to report malicious activity from their network, you file it, you get "Error message to be decided", and it turns out they've banned you in the meantime; all their websites give you "Access denied".
And they host an exploit since 2021 at least: #security #abuse