Tootfinder

On Website Technicals (2021-11) - Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-54.html

On Website Technicals (2021-11)
Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org.

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…

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366874/spacex-bitcoin-holdings-exceed-1-billion

Kirk vs. Fuentes
Right-wing student group Turning Point USA struggles to bar white nationalists from gathering - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/17/right-wing-student-group-turning-point-usa-struggles-to-bar-white-nationalists-from-gathering/

Do Large Language Models Favor Recent Content? A Study on Recency Bias in LLM-Based Reranking
Hanpei Fang, Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Kai-Xin Chang, Tetsuya Sakai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11353

Do Large Language Models Favor Recent Content? A Study on Recency Bias in LLM-Based Reranking
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in information systems, including being used as second-stage rerankers in information retrieval pipelines, yet their susceptibility to recency bias has received little attention. We investigate whether LLMs implicitly favour newer documents by prepending artificial publication dates to passages in the TREC Deep Learning passage retrieval collections in 2021 (DL21) and 2022 (DL22). Across seven models, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4o, GPT-4, LLaMA-3 8…

On the Smallest Size of Internal Collage Systems
Soichiro Migita, Kyotaro Uehata, Tomohiro I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11602 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11…

On the Smallest Size of Internal Collage Systems
A Straight-Line Program (SLP) for a stirng $T$ is a context-free grammar in Chomsky normal form that derives $T$ only, which can be seen as a compressed form of $T$. Kida et al.\ introduced collage systems [Theor. Comput. Sci., 2003] to generalize SLPs by adding repetition rules and truncation rules. The smallest size $c(T)$ of collage systems for $T$ has gained attention to see how these generalized rules improve the compression ability of SLPs. Navarro et al. [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2021] s…

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12722

Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Whether language models (LMs) have inductive biases that favor typologically frequent grammatical properties over rare, implausible ones has been investigated, typically using artificial languages (ALs) (White and Cotterell, 2021; Kuribayashi et al., 2024). In this paper, we extend these works from two perspectives. First, we extend their context-free AL formalization by adopting Generalized Categorial Grammar (GCG) (Wood, 2014), which allows ALs to cover attested but previously overlooked cons…

> 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.

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
#robots

Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

Wanna feel old? Back in the now seemingly forever-ago days of 2021 we had an interlinked network of human-curated knowledge we called the world wide web and search engines that could pinpoint accurate information in fractions of a second

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.

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…

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

Scenes From An Intuitive Journey
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Universe City:
🎵 Can You Get Down
#UniverseCity
https://universecitymusic.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-get-down-serious-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ApnZM8mCOrdn1isKpcCVQ

Carney has announced LNG Canada will be expanded to its full potential. It will produce as much GHG emissions as 75% of the entirety of the province of British Columbia does right now. Yes, that's right. BC produced 61 million tons of GHGs in 2021, LNG Canada will produce 46 million tons at full power.
I am glad communities and health professionals are demanding a full inventory of the health impacts of this infrastructure. I hope that will also include the directly attributed heating from this plant to the increase in likelihood for wildfires, heat waves, and all the rest with all those health impacts across BC and the globe.
This is a gigantic project. Canada is a gigantic Climate Problem.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #LNG #Kitimat #LNGCanada #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
Tyee article on health risks calloutI https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/11/Halt-LNG-Expansion-Health-Risks/
Emissions and energy data from CleanTechnica 2025: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/19/lng-canadas-true-cost-2-2-billion-tons-of-co₂e-over-50-years/ )
Nature: Directly attributing global heating and health impacts to “climate majors”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9)
Major Projects Office: Initial Projects under Consideration: https://www.canada.ca/en/one-canadian-economy/news/2025/09/major-projects-office-of-canada-initial-projects-under-consideration.html

2025 Ig Nobel prize winners, including
PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp

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…

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jianguo Ding, Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt, Adamu Gaston Philipo, Huansheng Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20411

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews GAN-based adversarial defenses in cybersecurity (2021--August 31, 2025), consolidating recent progress, identifying gaps, and outlining future directions. Using a PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review protocol, we searched five major digital libraries. From 8…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

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

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

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