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Diarycast - Year In Review, and One Weird Trick (2022) - A look back at the thrills and spills of 2022 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - h…

Diarycast - Year In Review, and One Weird Trick (2022)
A look back at the thrills and spills of 2022 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Schweinfurt im Wildpark an den Eichen und haben dort geholfen, ein Blitzturnier zu veranstalten. Neben Flyern, Luftballons etc. war auch hier natürlich zur Freude aller Kinder wieder Chessy am Start. Und auch unsere "Morphs" waren mit dabei, sodass man gegen anonyme Gegner Schach spielen konnte.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Den ukrainske man som gripits i Italien är misstänkt för att ha samordnat sabotagen mot gasledningarna Nord Stream 1 och 2 i september 2022. https://www.dn.se/varlden/gripen-ukrainsk-man-misstanks-ha-samordnat-nord-stream-sabotage/

Gripen ukrainare misstänks ha samordnat Nord Stream-sabotage
Gripandet är det första som gjorts sedan sprängningarna på Östersjöns botten – och tyska myndigheter beskriver operationen som ”exceptionell”.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,024,210 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Outward and Inward
#InstrumentalMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-i

Outward and Inward #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Gestern demonstrierten rund 60 Fahrradfahrer:nnen in #Osnabrück für bessere Radwege. Eine schöne Spazierfahrt die bei 18 Grad etwas kälter als erwartet fand. Da wir als Gruppe als ein Fahrzeug gelten, können wir Kreuzungen und Überwege passieren, sobald die ersten Räder drüber sind. Auch wenn dass dann z.B. wieder Rot wird. Das fühlt sich seltsam an, und macht Laune. Endlich mal Vorfahrt für …

"Tearable puns"

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara - tanahair.net
Lonjakan kontrak gas alam cair jangka panjang dari Cina menopang produksi regional dan memperpanjang ketergantungan bahan bakar fosil. oleh: Nithin Coca* Pada tahun 2021, volume impor gas alam cair Cina melampaui semua negara lain. Setelah turun ke posisi kedua pada tahun 2022, negara ini merebut kembali posisi teratas pada tahun 2023 dan bertahan di sana

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’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.

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. "
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#AlmostACompliment

Alte HomeKit-Architektur: Apple plant zwangsweisen Wechsel
Schon seit 2022 gibt es die neue Plattform für Apples Smart-Home-Technik. Doch noch immer sind nicht alle User umgestiegen. Das soll sich bald ändern.

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10865

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we also leverage both the refreshed passage and document collections that were released last year leading to a nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection and nearly four times increase in the document collection size. U…

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the so…

'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…

Figma's stock sinks 27% after last week's IPO pop
After more than tripling in its debut last week, Figma gave up some of its gains on Monday.

Having to add an explicit dependency declaration to a #gradle build file, to ensure that an app isn't built with a GSON version that has vulnerabilities dating back to 2022, feels sooo wrong..... but hey, that's #AndroidDev!
(if you're wondering, a dependency of the project has a deep …

Let Life Continue – “Requiem for a Stranger” Revisited #inspiration #music https://muz4now.com/2022/let-l…

Let Life Continue - "Requiem for a Stranger" Revisited
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#CheerUpAPetWithASong

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky, Adam Brcek, Ryosuke Hirai, Veome Kapil, Mike Y. M. Lau, JD Merritt, Nicol\'as Rodr\'iguez-Segovia, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Yuzhe Song, Simon Stevenson, Avi Vajpeyi, L. A. C. van Son, Alejandro Vigna-G\'omez, Reinhold Willcox
https…

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
The COMPAS public rapid binary population synthesis code has undergone a number of key improvements since the original COMPAS methods paper (Team COMPAS: Riley et al., 2022) was published. These include more sophisticated and robust treatments of binary interactions: mass transfer physics, common-envelope events, tides and gravitational-wave radiation reaction; and updated prescriptions for stellar evolution, winds and supernovae. The code structure and outputs have also been updated, with a fo…

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement https://therecord.media/bidencash-cybercrime-darknet-market-takedown-us-netherlands

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Large language Models have only been widely available since 2022 and yet in less than three years have had a significant impact on approaches to education and educational technology. Here we review the domains in which they have been used, and discuss a variety of use cases, their successes and failures. We then progress to discussing how this is changing the dynamic for learners and educators, consider the main design challenges facing LLMs if they are to become truly helpful and effective as …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
https://muz4now.co…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348 30B: Constraints on the jet power
Sajad Ahanger, Sunder Sahayanathan, Sitha K. Jagan, Shah Zahir, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02821

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348+30B: Constraints on the jet power
We present 14.5-year multi-wavelength analysis of flat-spectrum radio quasar B2 1348+30B using Swift-UVOT, Swift-XRT, and Fermi-LAT observations. In the gamma-ray band, the 3 day bin lightcurve reveals two major flaring events on 2010-09-19 (55458 MJD) and 2022-05-26 (59725 MJD) detected at flux levels $(2.5\pm 0.5) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ and $(5.2\pm 0.6) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$. The Bayesian block analysis of the flares suggested the variability timescale …

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Chengyao Zhang, Ankang Gao, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00112 https://arxiv…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Recent theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed that flapping compliant membrane wings can significantly enhance propulsive performance (e.g. Tzezana and Breuer, 2019, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 871-888) and energy harvesting efficiency (e.g. Mathai et al., 2022, J. Fluid Mech., 942, R4) compared to rigid foils. Here, we numerically investigate the effects of the stretching coefficient (or aeroelastic number), $K_S$, the flapping frequency, $St_c$, and the pitching amplitude, $θ_0$,…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Redbone:
🎵 Come and Get Your Love
#Redbone
https://funkyganesh.bandcamp.com/track/redbone-come-get-your-love-funky-ganesh-2022-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/5519RhpzObr9Mn3iqoeodJ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#GreedASongOrPoem

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…