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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 31. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Forest". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24508

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
The high prevalence of students not achieving the basic competencies in Latin America is concerning. Even more so given the region's deep structural inequalities and the larger post-pandemic regional learning losses. Within this scenario, this paper contributes to the identification of the determinants of bottom and low performers (below level 2) using recent advancements on explainable machine learning methods. In particular, relying on PISA 2022 data for 10 countries and using the Shapley Add…

Nvidia opens at a $5T market cap, becoming the first company to hit the milestone, climbing 5% in early trading; NVDA is up 50% in 2025 and 1,275% since 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/62933c70-261c-4b7a-a045-3f9f9cceccd7

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24830

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
The learning crisis in the Latin American region (i.e., higher rates of students not reaching basic competencies at secondary level) is worrying, particularly post-pandemic given the stronger role of inequality behind achievement. Within this scenario, the concept of student academic resilience (SAR), students who despite coming from disadvantaged backgrounds reach good performance levels, and an analysis of its determinants, are policy relevant. In this paper, using advancements on explainable…

90 % der Bürger wünschen sich laut Bitkom mehr Tempo bei der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung. 2017 versprach das OZG: 575 Leistungen bis Ende 2022 online. Realität: erst 165 flächendeckend – selbst gefragteste Behördenleistungen gibt es oft nur in 10 % der Kommunen. Das Vertrauen schwindet schneller, als Aktenordner verstauben. #heise

Gefragteste Behördenleistungen nur in 10 Prozent der Kommunen digital verfügbar
Digitalisierung der Behörden bleibt eine Großbaustelle: Nach wie vor sind viele Leistungen nicht online verfügbar. Die Bürger wünschen laut Bitkom mehr Tempo.

Private and public school efficiency gaps in Latin America-A combined DEA and machine learning approach based on PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25353 https…

Private and public school efficiency gaps in Latin America-A combined DEA and machine learning approach based on PISA 2022
Latin America's education systems are fragmented and segregated, with substantial differences by school type. The concept of school efficiency (the ability of school to produce the maximum level of outputs given available resources) is policy relevant due to scarcity of resources in the region. Knowing whether private and public schools are making an efficient use of resources -and which are the leading drivers of efficiency- is critical, even more so after the learning crisis brought by the CO…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,095,520 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

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https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

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Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/international/uk…

Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya
Attention à ne pas sous-estimer la menace et la force de l’armée russe. L’ancien colonel Michel Goya met en garde : depuis le semi-ratage ukrainien en 2022, les troupes de Poutine se sont transformées.

Wichtiges Interview im Tagesanzeiger online:
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/pussy-riot-maria-aljochina-ueber-putins-terrorstaat-in-russland-176175703989
(Ohne Bezahlschranke? Oder sehe ich sie als Abonnentin einfach nicht…

Pussy Riot: Maria Aljochina über Putins Terrorstaat in Russland
Maria Aljochina sass Jahre in einer russischen Strafkolonie, dann konnte sie 2022 aus Russland fliehen. Ist sie seitdem vorsichtiger geworden? Kein bisschen. Die Putin-Gegnerin spricht Klartext.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.

Suede, una de las principales bandas representantes del britpop noventero y que nos visitó en Chile este año, hoy ha publicado un nuevo disco. «Antidepresants», que es el sucesor de «Autofiction», del 2022, que fue un muy buen disco para mí gusto. Ojalš que también esté a la altura.
https://album.link/s/6N0IlrIaCkdqM4V6u

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,087,180 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,116,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak, James Juno, Orlando M. Romeo, Tai Phan, Trevor A. Bowen, Roberto Livi, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Davin E. Larson, Stuart D. Bake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12608

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current sheets in the near-Sun solar wind. Using near-Sun observations from PSP Encounters 4 to 11 (Jan 2020 to March 2022), we investigate whether reconnection onset might be suppressed by velocity shear. We compare estimates of the tearing mode growth rate in the …

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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Wu-Lu:
🎵 Road Trip (6 Music Session, 3 Sep 2022)
#WuLu
https://wu-lu.bandcamp.com/track/road-trip
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Russia’s largest redeployment of troops since 2022 sets the stage for a decisive battle in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/russias-largest-redeployment-of-troops.html