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I'm going to talk about my work today... to 4 year old kids at my daughter's school :)))
I hope my wet lab skills are good enough to isolate a DNA from banana!
#science #dissemination

Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/…

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 11 January - 18 January
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Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

from my link log —
An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/
saved 2021-12-01

Es ist ebenso faszinierend wie lustig. Der einzige Artikel auf meinem Blog, der seit Jahren(!) zuverlässige Abrufzahlen hat, ist immer noch der, wie man das Tastaturlayout des Alphasmart Neo2 auf das Deutsche umstellt.
https://mela.de/blog/2021/01/15/alphasmart…

There are a few sites using the UK government API for fuel prices, but I suspect, based on military choices, the crowdsourced "availability" reports may actually be the thing that's critical.
(Not sure why availability wasn't part of the API, given the chaos of September 2021.)
https://checkfuelprices.co.uk

Check Fuel Prices – Find the Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Near You
Live UK fuel prices from thousands of petrol stations including Shell, BP, Gulf, and more. Compare prices for E10, E5, B7, and SDV near you using our interactive map or postcode search.

„Frieden wird es erst geben wenn Araber ihre Kinder mehr lieben als sie uns hassen. [...] Wer Israel angreift, bekommt es mit Deutschland zu tun.”
— Cem Özdemir, 20.05.2021 auf einer Pro-Israel Demo, anfangs zitierend Golda Meir, ehemalige Ministerpräsidentin Israels.

Alles in einen Topf
Angesichts der Lage im Gazastreifen wurde auch hierzulande protestiert – und in dem Zusammenhang wieder heftig über Antisemitismus diskutiert. Dabei lohnt es sich, genauer hinzusehen.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 11 January - 18 January
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On Being a Hardware Developer (2021) - What does it mean to be a hardware developer? #podcast #hardware - https://www.

On Being a Hardware Developer (2021)
What does it mean to be a hardware developer? #podcast #hardware

Mac Jones confirms Kyle Shanahan wanted to draft him to 49ers in 2021: 'He wanted me to be here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-confirms-kyle-shanahan-wanted-to-draft-him-49ers-2021

#OTD 2021

Ach was!
Daten zu Anträgen auf #Agrardiesel Rückvergütung zeigen, dass 2021 und 2022 nur etwa die Hälfte der #Betriebe die Entlastung nutzte.
Gründe reichen von geringem #Dieselverbrauch

Agrardiesel: Nur jeder zweite Betrieb beantragte Rückvergütung
Vor zwei Jahren protestierten Tausende Landwirte wochenlang gegen die geplante Streichung der Agrardieselrückvergütung. Exklusive Zahlen aus Jahren zuvor zeigen nun: Fast die Hälfte der Betriebe beantragte die Steuerentlastung gar nicht.

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,
the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It’s not on display at the Capitol
-- as is required by law.
Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

Jan. 6 plaque absent from Capitol around fifth anniversary of attack
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found. It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts are not publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump administration’s Justice Department is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit asking that it be displayed. In…

While the current administration, largely responsible for the insurrection attempt on 6 January 2021, has memory-holed the government’s public archive, NPR maintains its own:
https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Also there’s currently a Democratic-led unofficial hearing discussing Jan 6:

Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

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 :

Raiders re-sign DE Malcolm Koonce https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-re-sign-malcolm-koonce-defensive-end-2026-nfl-free-agency-transactions

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 11 January - 18 January
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from my link log —
Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size.
https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/semver-snares-size/
saved 2021-01-08 https://

How BuzzFeed went from a $1.7B digital-media darling in 2016 to the brink of bankruptcy, as an early investor blames mismanagement following a 2021 SPAC merger (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-buzz

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 11 January - 18 January
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from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18 <…

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet

Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 (Julia Zhong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 4 January - 11 January
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Survivors of Super Typhoon Odette are making history—they're suing Shell in UK courts for its role in fueling the climate crisis.
Their argument: Shell's emissions made the devastating storm more likely and more severe. It's part of a growing movement to hold Big Oil accountable for climate damages, especially in vulnerable regions like the Philippines that face repeated destruction.
"We don't deserve this," they say—and they're fighting back.
…

“We Don’t Deserve This”: Survivors of Super Typhoon Odette File Claims Against Shell
Last week the survivors of Super Typhoon Odette that struck the Philippines in 2021 filed what may be the most ambitious climate lawsuit to date against global oil giant Shell.

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

from my link log —
Arcan as operating system design.
https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-design/
saved 2025-12-28

Arcan as Operating System Design
Time to continue to explain what Arcan actually “is” on a higher level. Previous articles have invited the comparison to Xorg ( part1, part2 ). Another possibility would have been Plan9…

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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Myanmar releases at least four journalists as part of an amnesty of 7,300 prisoners convicted of terrorism after the military's 2021 coup (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/03/at-least-4-myanmar-journalists-jai…

At least 4 Myanmar journalists jailed on terrorism charges released in amnesty - Committee to Protect Journalists
Singapore, March 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release in recent days of at least four journalists in Myanmar as part of an amnesty of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted of terrorism, but urges military authorities to free all remaining jailed reporters. Those released include Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun, Myat Kalay (Naing Win Tun), Than Htike...

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 4 January - 11 January
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 4 January - 11 January
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 4 January - 11 January
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 4 January - 11 January
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-OralHist: 4 January - 11 January
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