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Writing a C compiler.
https://norasandler.com/2022/03/29/Write-a-C-Compiler-the-Book.html
saved 2025-06-11

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MovieCharactersAutoBiographyTitles

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas #Australia

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas
Few animals tug at Australian hearts like the koala. Yet the marsupial, once common along the eastern seaboard, was declared endangered in New South Wales (NSW) in 2022. Habitat loss, climate stress, and disease have driven populations down so far that a parliamentary inquiry warned they could vanish from the state before 2050. The proposed […]

#fedihilfe ein ungenannt bleiben wollender ChatBot hat eines meiner Fotos als Porträt der Ex- #Femen Aktivistin #JosephineWitt identifiziert. Ist das Quatsch oder hat das LLM recht?
ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internationaler_Tag_der_Menschenrechte,_Berlin_2022,_LeaveNoOneBehind,_Marsch_für_Menschenrechte_07.jpg
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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

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

Du Maroc Š Madagascar, la génération Z fait sonner la révolte au-delŠ des frontières https://www.france24.com/fr/afrique/20251001-du-népal-à-madagascar…

Linearly involved Generalized Moreau Enhanced Model with Non-quadratic Smooth Convex Data Fidelity Functions
Wataru Yata, Keita Kume, Isao Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03258

Linearly involved Generalized Moreau Enhanced Model with Non-quadratic Smooth Convex Data Fidelity Functions
In this paper, we introduce an overall convex model incorporating a nonconvex regularizer. The proposed model is designed by extending the least squares term in the constrained LiGME model [Yata Yamagishi Yamada 2022] to fairly general smooth convex functions for flexible utilization of non-quadratic data fidelity functions. Under an overall convexity condition for the proposed model, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of a minimizer of the proposed model and an inner-loop free …

from my link log —
Matthew Somerville’s Inky dashboard.
https://dracos.co.uk/wrote/inky-dashboard/
saved 2022-01-09 https://dotat.at/…

A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-15/ub…

Initiator of the #NixOS documentation team is stepping down:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-next-chapter-in-nix-documentation/68425

Bayesian Re-Analysis of the Phylogenetic Topology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Case Sequences
Michael B. Weissman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01484 https://arxiv.org…

Bayesian Re-Analysis of the Phylogenetic Topology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Case Sequences
A much-cited 2022 paper by Pekar et al. claimed that Bayesian analysis of the molecular phylogeny of early SARS-CoV-2 cases indicated that it was more likely that two successful introductions to humans had occurred than that just one had. Here I show that after correcting a fundamental error in Bayesian reasoning the results in that paper give larger likelihood for a single introduction than for two.

One--Component Plasma Equation of State Revisited via Angular--Averaged Ewald Potential
G. S. Demyanov, P. R. Levashov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02390 https://

One--Component Plasma Equation of State Revisited via Angular--Averaged Ewald Potential
We present analytic fits of classical one--component plasma (OCP) internal energy over a wide range of coupling parameter $0.01\leΓ\le 170$ using Monte--Carlo data in the thermodynamic limit. We extend the dataset obtained in [Demyanov and Levashov, Phys. Rev. E 106, 015204 (2022)] using the angular--averaged Ewald potential with additional points at strong coupling ($Γ=120,\ 150,\ 170$). We then fit two frequently used functional forms for the OCP equation of state: (i) a five-parameter equa…

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807 132
E. A. Saavedra, T. Mu\~noz-Darias, M. A. P. Torres, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, M. Armas Padilla, A. \'Alvarez-Hern\'andez, J. Casares, D. Mata S\'anchez, S. K. Rout, S. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20178 …

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132
The neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 has undergone outbursts in 2017, 2019, and 2023. We conducted an $R$-band time series photometry campaign using the Isaac Newton Telescope during the 2022 quiescent state. We detected a periodic variation in the light curve, consistent with ellipsoidal modulation, which allowed us to determine an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb} = 4.258 \pm 0.008$ hr. By modelling the light curve, we obtained a binary inclination of $ i = 72\pm5 \, °$ and a mass ra…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk Over Town (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#KatyJPearson
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF

from my link log —
Literature Clock
https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/
saved 2022-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/S22ZG.html

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Yundan Guo, Han Liang, Li Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09095 https://

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement and the deepening digital economy, this study examines the causal impact of digital transformation on corporate financial asset allocation in China. Using data from A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022, we construct a firm-level digitalization index based on text analysis of annual reports and differentiate financial asset allocation into long-term and short-term dimensions. Employing fixed-effects models and a staggered difference-i…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 In šr gCroíthe go deo (Glastonbury 2022)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/in-r-gcro-the-go-deo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4SrJ7S8Zz9LShbeY7MXpZk