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"on predatory academic journals and conferences" #predatorypublishing

Good Morning #Canada
On June 30th, 1987, a Canadian one-dollar coin was introduced, produced by the Royal Canadian Mint at its facility in Winnipeg. The beloved #Loonie was born. But did you know the iconic Loon image wasn't meant to be the coin in production and only came to be because the original master dies were lost by a courier. We came close to embedding "Voyageurs" at centre ice during the Olympics.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
https://www.mint.ca/en/blog/2022-07-a-tale-of-two-designs-loonie

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

Krugman outlines a constellation of possible causes around a core theme: extreme uncertainty.
“What does a business do in the face of this kind of uncertainty? It tries to avoid making commitments that it may soon regret.”
Krugman tries to tie it all to Trump’s recent actions, which is dubious: the post-college job market has been crap since 2022 or 2023; Krugman’s own graph suggests it started worsening circa 2018. The larger theme of uncertainty, however, fits that timeframe.

Guru Puppy – I’m Learning From My Dog #puppy https://muz4now.com/2022/guru-puppy-im-learning-from-my-dog

Guru Puppy - I'm Learning From My Dog
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A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

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#LesserKnownFanConventions

Yay, the German math and astronomy wizard Erhard Weigel - see #SolarEclipse map by Michael Zeiler during the final SEC talk, and it's already a pretty modern and clever one! 8/n - more tomorrow.

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
Amik Raj Behera, Nutan Limaye, Varun Ramanathan, Srikanth Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16397

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
In this work, we prove upper and lower bounds over fields of positive characteristics for several fragments of the Ideal Proof System (IPS), an algebraic proof system introduced by Grochow and Pitassi (J. ACM 2018). Our results extend the works of Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret, and Wigderson (Theory of Computing 2021) and also of Govindasamy, Hakoniemi, and Tzameret (FOCS 2022). These works primarily focused on proof systems over fields of characteristic $0$, and we are able to extend these results…

Good idea, perhaps the Commission could put this vision into practice for #EV roaming, so that the #AFIR provisions do not remain a dead letter?
From: @…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off. 💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.” 8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way: → 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls → 2007: roaming caps → 2017: the end of roaming charges → 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing: 🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU 💰 Protection from unexpected charges 🆘 Better access to emergency services Fair for opera…

"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/

Signed by Cowboys, La'el Collins last played in NFL regular season for Bengals in 2022 https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2025/08/02/lael-collins-signs-with-cowboys-last-…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
Gaga Chakhvashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15341

Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
We describe certain class of simplicial sets introduced around 2022 by Valentin Shehtman; we call such simplicial sets Shehtman complexes. An example of a Shehtman complex that is not a Kan complexes is given.

This was a particularly good #wine brought back from #Argentina
Shared with good people during a good English summer evening.

Olha, Portugal ali em primeiro.
Curioso que quando nos ensinam na escola os descobrimentos nem sempre nos digam também que "descobrimentos" sempre implicaram imperialismo e colonialismo e o que deles vem.
Em grande medida, Portugal criou o mundo moderno. Com o que isso tem de bom E com o (muito) que tem de mau. Mas por cš raramente se fala do mau.

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image **European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer** _Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._ 🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer. #Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons@a.gup.pe

#idw Klimaschützende #Kohlenstoffsenken der EU-Wälder werden schwächer
#Wälder bedecken etwa 40 Prozent der EU-Landoberfläche. Zwischen 1990 und 2022 haben sie etwa 10 Prozent der von Menschen verursac…

Klimaschützende Kohlenstoffsenken der EU-Wälder werden schwächer

The Spread of Writing: Every Year (3000 BCE - 2022 CE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUpJ4yVCNrI

Can't help but feel that all of the editorials criticising the Online Safety Act might have been better published at any point between March 2022 and September 2023.

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#LifeLessonsFromSitcoms

Extremely hot day in the Netherlands again, especially in the South. In over a century of records until 2019, no station in the country had ever reached a temperature of 39°C.
Today was the third time the city of Maastricht saw it happen, and this was by far the earliest in summer for any station.
#heatwave

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792

Great grey owl flips the script on Quebec City wildlife photographer | CBC News
An amateur photographer got more than she bargained for when the owl she set out to photograph landed on her camera lens.

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#EarlyMorningSongsOrPoems

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

New Bounds on the Anti-Ramsey Number of Independent Triangles
Hongliang Lu, Xinyue Luo, Xinxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07115 https://

New Bounds on the Anti-Ramsey Number of Independent Triangles
An edge-colored graph is called \textit{rainbow graph} if all the colors on its edges are distinct. Given a positive integer $n$ and a graph $G$, the \textit{anti-Ramsey number} $ar(n,G)$ is defined to be the minimum number of colors $r$ such that there exists a rainbow copy of $G$ in any exactly $r$-edge-coloring of $K_n$. Wu et al. (Anti-Ramsey numbers for vertex-disjoint triangles, \emph{Discrete. Math.}, \textbf{346} (2022), 113123) determined the anti-Ramsey number $ar(n, kK_3)$ for $n\g…

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
Vladimir G. Ushakov, Emile S. Medvedev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12216 https://…

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
The line list for the principal isotopologue of CO calculated earlier by the present authors [1, 2] with the irregular dipole-moment function (DMF) is updated with use of the recent high-precision measurements in the 3-0 [3, 4] (Bielska et al. 2022, Hodges et al. 2025) and 7-0 [5] (Balashov et al. 2023) bands. The new data came in contradiction with the experimental data on the 1-0 band [6, 7]. Therefore, we performed fitting several model DMFs to the modified original data set of Meshkov et al…

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-nomi.html

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Since ChatGPT’s late 2022 launch, everyday people have formed emotional connections to chatbots, describing them as deep friendships and even life partnerships.

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Zhangming Yang, Xiaoting Yin, Dahai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09216

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Drawing on the new pattern of 'dual circulation', an evaluation system for the development level of China's higher education has been constructed, utilizing data from Chinese provinces over the period 2020 to 2022. Initially, the evaluation model is established, followed by the screening of initial indicators through correlation analysis. Subsequently, an entropy weight-TOPSIS model are employed for static quantification, and the PVAR model is introduced for the first time to describe the dynam…

Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. Andr\'e, M. Ardid, S. Ardid, J. -J. Aubert, J. Aublin, B. Baret, S. Basa, Y. Becherini, B. Belhorma, F. Benfenati, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, J. Boumaaza, M. Bouta, M. C. Bouwhuis, H. Branzas, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, J. Busto, B. Caiffi, D. Calvo, S. Campion, A. Capone, F. Carenini, J. Carr, V. Carretero, T. Cartraud, S. Celli, L. Cerisy, M. Chabab, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, J.…

Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
This study presents a novel search for magnetic monopoles using data collected over a 14 year period (2008-2022) by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The interaction of magnetic monopoles with matter was modeled according to Kazama, Yang, and Goldhaber cross-section. Upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles are obtained for velocities both above and below the Cherenkov threshold. No events consistent with the passage of magnetic monopoles were detected, enabling the setting of an upper flux…

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Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Sipeng Zeng, Xiaoning Wang, Tianshu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09634 https://arxiv.…

Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for enhancing innovation and productivity, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We investigate why some firms and industries succeed with AI while others do not, focusing on the degree to which an industrial domain is technologically integrated with AI, which we term "domain AI readiness". Using panel data on Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2022, we examine how the interaction between firm-level AI capabilities and domain AI re…

Saw a bit of a general knowledge gameshow the other day where the question was something like "Which woman became the UK's shortest-serving Prime Minister in 2022?" and the contestant absolutely blanked on it.

Lazy B-Trees
Casper Moldrup Rysgaard, Sebastian Wild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00277

Lazy B-Trees
Lazy search trees (Sandlund & Wild FOCS 2020, Sandlund & Zhang SODA 2022) are sorted dictionaries whose update and query performance smoothly interpolates between that of efficient priority queues and binary search trees - automatically, depending on actual use; no adjustments are necessary to the data structure to realize the cost savings. In this paper, we design lazy B-trees, a variant of lazy search trees suitable for external memory that generalizes the speedup of B-trees over binary searc…

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
In\'es Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers, Ilya S. Khrykin, Nicolas Tejos, Kaustubh Rajwade, Manisha Caleb, Mayuresh P. Surnis, Laura N. Driessen, Sunil Simha, Jun Tian, J. Xavier Prochaska, Ewan Barr, Wen-Fai Fong, Fabian Jankowski, Lordrick Kahinga, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Michael Kramer, Lluis Mas-Ribas

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferometry, particularly with MeerKAT, have enabled the localisation of individual bursts with arcsecond precision. In this work, we present the localisation of 15 apparently non-repeating FRBs detected with MeerKAT. Two of the FRBs, discovered in 2022, were localised in 8 second images from the projects which MeerTRAP was …

Revisiting Bourgain's probabilistic construction of solutions to the 2-$d$ cubic NLS
Tadahiro Oh, Yuzhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24271 https://…

Revisiting Bourgain's probabilistic construction of solutions to the 2-$d$ cubic NLS
In a seminal paper (1996), Bourgain proved invariance of the Gibbs measure for the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the two-dimensional torus by constructing local-in-time solutions in a probabilistic manner. In this note, we revisit and streamline his argument, using the random tensor estimate developed by Deng, Nahmod, and Yue (2022).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

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Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
Samaneh Goodarzi, Ali Tavanmand, Hamed Shajari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23855

Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
This study evaluated the impact of Zinc (Zn) supplementation on the growth, yield, and seed quality of chickpea (Pisum sativum L.) under the semi-arid conditions of Kerman, Iran, across two growing seasons (2021-2022). A randomized complete block design was used with six treatments, including varying concentrations of zinc sulphate applied via foliar spraying (0.1%, 0.25%, 0.5%) or irrigation (4, 8, 16 kg/ha), each applied twice-one and two months after greening. Results from the first year rev…

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying #improv #jazz #nowplaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
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