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> 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.

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in Jan. 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (Financial Times)

Parameterized Algorithms for Computing Pareto Sets
Joshua K\"onen, Heiko R\"oglin, Tarek Stuck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06124 https://arxiv.org…

Parameterized Algorithms for Computing Pareto Sets
Dynamic programming over tree decompositions is a common technique in parameterized algorithms. In this paper, we study whether this technique can also be applied to compute Pareto sets of multiobjective optimization problems. We first derive an algorithm to compute the Pareto set for the multicriteria s-t cut problem and show how this result can be applied to a polygon aggregation problem arising in cartography that has recently been introduced by Rottmann et al. (GIScience 2021). We also show…

The administration is putting up signs that say,
"President Donald J. Trump"
and
"Rebuilding America's Infrastructure"
at worksites funded by Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill
-- and for projects Trump opposed
https://www.

Trump Is Taking Credit for Infrastructure Projects Funded by Biden Legislation He Opposed
Donald Trump is taking credit for infrastructure projects funded by a bill former president Joe Biden signed into law, which Trump opposed.

> 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.

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

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
#CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.com/2021/release-and-procrastination-life-and-artistry/

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

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…

Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
Ce Cai, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Jin-Peng Zhang, Ping Wang, Yao-Guang Zheng, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shuo Xiao, Hao-Xuan Guo, Jia-Cong Liu, Yang-Zhao Ren, Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Wang, Sheng-Lun Xie, Wang-Chen Xue, Zheng-Hang Yu, Peng Zhang, Wen-Long Zhang, Chao Zheng, Jia-Wei Luo, Shuai Zhang, Li-Ming Song, Shuang-Nan Zhang

Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are often missed. Here we present a systematic search for and verification of missed SGRBs using Fermi/GBM subthreshold triggers, jointly analyzing data from GBM, GECAM-B, and GECAM-C. Among 466 Fermi/GBM sub-threshold events (with reliability >= 5) from 2021 to…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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 ...

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…

Als Windows 10 am 29. Juli 2015 auf den Markt kam, stand Microsoft vor einer Herausforderung: Die Nutzer waren mit Windows 8 unzufrieden und hielten an Windows 7 fest. Die Lösung? Zurück zu den Wurzeln!
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10502275?wt_mc=sm.re

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…

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EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Arun Kumar Awasthi, Brigitte Schmieder, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01400 https://…

EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
We present an investigation of the Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) wave linked to the flare that occurred on 28 October 2021, along with the associated coronal loop oscillation and type II radio burst. The EUV wave was observed by multi-viewpoint with Solar Dynamics Observatory and Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory - A. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed by Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) as well by COR1 coronagraph. From the multi-view observation, we fou…

Making a Case for Research Collaboration Between Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Experts
Radhika Kulkarni, Gianluca Brero, Yu Ding, Swati Gupta, Sven Koenig, Ramayya Krishnan, Thiago Serra, Phebe Vayanos, Segev Wasserkrug, Holly Wiberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21076

Making a Case for Research Collaboration Between Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Experts
In 2021, INFORMS, ACM SIGAI, and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) hosted three workshops to explore synergies between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) to improve decision-making. The workshops aimed to create a unified research vision for AI/OR collaboration, focusing on overcoming cultural differences and maximizing societal impact. The first two workshops addressed technological innovations, applications, and trustworthy AI development, while the final worksho…

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

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.

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Mayukh Choudhury, Debraj Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12457

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator or Lasso, introduced by Tibshirani (1996), is one of the widely used regularization methods in regression. It is observed that the properties of Lasso vary wildly depending on the choice of the penalty parameter. The recent results of Lahiri (2021) suggest that, depending on the nature of the penalty parameter, Lasso can either be variable selection consistent or be $n^{1/2}-$consistent. However, practitioners generally implement Lasso by choosing…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Ego Ella May:
🎵 What's Happening Brother (6 Music Session, 22 May 2021)
#EgoEllaMay

Jeden Tag, den ich mir diese Bundesregierung anschaue, verfestigt sich der Eindruck, dass jeder noch so kleine Fortschritt unter der Ampel einfach gegen die SPD erkämpft wurde.
(Okay, Scholz hatte ja 2021 effektiv damit Wahlkampf gemacht merkeliger als Laschet zu sein, was wundere ich mich überhaupt?)

from my link log —
The design of forms in government departments.
https://design-of-forms.online/
saved 2021-03-20 https://dotat.a…

Stoquasticity is not enough: towards a sharper diagnostic for Quantum Monte Carlo simulability
Arman Babakhani, Armen Karakashian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14382 https://

Stoquasticity is not enough: towards a sharper diagnostic for Quantum Monte Carlo simulability
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are powerful tools for simulating quantum many-body systems, yet their applicability is limited by the infamous sign problem. We approach this challenge through the lens of Vanishing Geometric Phases (VGP) \cite{Hen_2021}, introducing it as a `geometric' criterion for diagnosing QMC simulability. We characterize the class of VGP Hamiltonians, and analyze the complexity of recognizing this class, identifying both hard and efficiently identifiable cases. We furth…

What a valid lab test report for #SolarEclipse glasses looks like - from an SEC talk by Richard Fienberg who also co-authored a scientific paper on this topic in 2021: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac013e 7/n

> 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.

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Katherine Suess, Tanay Agrawal, Lauranne Lanz, Yuanze Luo, Pallavi Patil, Kate Rowlands, Margaret Shepherd, Maya Skarbinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19162

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Changing-look active galactic nuclei, or CL-AGN, are AGN which appear to transition between Seyfert Type 1 and 2 over periods of months to years. Several mechanisms to trigger these transitions have been proposed, but we have yet to conclusively determine their cause. Recent studies suggest CL-AGN are hosted primarily in galaxies which are shutting down star formation (Dodd et al. 2021; Liu et al. 2021, Wang et al. 2023), which may indicate a link between galaxy quenching and changing look even…

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
Estifa'a Zaid (University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21219

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab seeks to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly, $a_μ=(g-2)/2$, with a final target precision of 0.14 parts-per-million (ppm). The experiment's initial result, published in 2021 using Run 1 data from 2018, confirmed the previous measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory with a comparable sensitivity of 0.46 ppm. In 2023, a new result based on Run 2 and Run 3 data, collected in 2019 and 2020, was released. These datasets contain four times the data from…

Spectral extremal problems for non-bipartite graphs without odd cycles
Lantao Zou, Lihua Feng, Yongtao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11817 https://

Spectral extremal problems for non-bipartite graphs without odd cycles
A well-known result of Mantel asserts that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph $G$ has at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ edges. Moreover, Erdős proved that if $G$ is further non-bipartite, then $e(G)\le \lfloor {(n-1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +1$. Recently, Lin, Ning and Wu [Combin. Probab. Comput. 30 (2021)] established a spectral version by showing that if $G$ is a triangle-free non-bipartite graph on $n$ vertices, then $λ(G)\le λ(S_1(T_{n-1,2}))$, with equality if and only if $G=S_1(T_{n-1,2})$, wher…

📸 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…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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.

📸 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…

Latent Spatial Heterogeneity in U.S. Cancer Mortality: A Multi-Site Clustering and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
E. Kubuafor, D. Baidoo, A. Duah, R. Amevor, O. J. Okeke, D. Quaye, P. O. Appiah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12188

Latent Spatial Heterogeneity in U.S. Cancer Mortality: A Multi-Site Clustering and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
This research set out to explore and delineate spatial patterns and mortality distributions for various cancer types across U.S. states between 1999 and 2021. The aim was to uncover region-specific cancer burdens and inform geographically targeted prevention efforts. We analyzed state-level cancer mortality records sourced from the CDC WONDER platform, concentrating on cancer sites consistently reported across the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., excluding Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto R…

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…