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Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance? https://bulletproofmusician.com/notes-first-or-music-first-which-leads-to-better-performance/

Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance?
A 2022 study provides an answer to the chicken and egg problem – should students work on the basics first before adding expression? Or should they aim to play with expression from the start?

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

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A Survey of LLM-based Automated Program Repair: Taxonomies, Design Paradigms, and Applications
Boyang Yang, Zijian Cai, Fengling Liu, Bach Le, Lingming Zhang, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e, Yang Liu, Haoye Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23749

A Survey of LLM-based Automated Program Repair: Taxonomies, Design Paradigms, and Applications
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated program repair (APR). We categorize the recent 63 LLM-based APR systems published from January 2022 to June 2025 into four paradigms, and show how retrieval- or analysis-augmented contexts strengthen any of them. This taxonomy clarifies key trade-offs: fine-tuning delivers strong task alignment at high training cost; prompting enables rapid deployment but is limited by prompt design and context windows; procedural pipelines offer reproducible…

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#RulesToSqueakBy

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

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Bandura and Sopilka
#PeaceInUkraine #NowPlaying
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Bandura and Sopilka #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Yoshihiro Asahara, Laura Baudis, Pranshu Bhaumik, Nathaniel Bowden, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Mason Camp, Qing Chang, Jordan Chapman, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Anna Erickson, Valentin Fondement, Katherine Freese, Shota Futamura, Claudio Galelli, Andrew Gilpin, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hasebe, Adam A. Hecht, Samuel C. …

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MD$ν$DM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). These proceedings compile contributions from the workshop and update the progress of mineral detector research. MD$ν$DM'25 was the third such meeting, following the first in October of 2022 held at the IFPU in Trieste, Italy and the second in January of…

Ran into my old alien friend! (2014, 2022, 2025)

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,044,250 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

I’m concerned the Overlay Community Group has found a way to normalize overlays by influencing the W3C draft “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edg…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

Are you using #GNOME desktop manager and do you know a method on how to switch to windows according to their names (sub-string search) like https://karl-voit.at/2022/10/28/window-teleporting/…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

Jets extend Garrett Wilson: Predicting who else from New York's transformative 2022 NFL Draft will get the bag

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,025,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.

I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔

Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality among Youth
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Elyse J. Thulin, Viktoryia Kalesnikava, Silas Falde, Jonathan Kertawidjaja, Lily Johns, Alejandro Rodr\'iguez-Putnam, Emma Spring, Kara Zivin, Briana Mezuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16185 …

Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality among Youth
The recent rise in youth suicide highlights the urgent need to understand how online experiences contribute to this public health issue. Our mixed-methods approach responds to this challenge by developing a set of themes focused on risk factors for suicide mortality in online spaces among youth ages 10-24, and a framework to model these themes at scale. Using 29,124 open text summaries of death investigations between 2013-2022, we conducted a thematic analysis to identify 12 types of online act…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series
#Deming

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Matthew Ding, Robbie King, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09037 https://arxiv.org…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a representative example of such a system; it is particularly interesting not only due to the existence of efficient quantum algorithms preparing approximations to the ground state such as Hastings--O'Donnell (STOC 2022), but also known no-go results for many classical ansatzes in preparin…

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Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 16.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Diluted Waters". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
Jibeom Seo, Jun Cho, Sukyung Han, Meesoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02864 https://…

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
We investigate semantic networks of achievement standards for physics subjects in the 2022 revised curriculum to derive information embedded in the curriculum. We extract each subject's keywords with node strength and random-walk betweenness, detect communities of physics terms by the optimized greedy algorithm, and find the connectivity of physics subjects using bipartite networks. The network analysis reveals three remarkable results: First, keywords are about scientific thinking and practice…

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Larry Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, David R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09192

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) have orbital periods of less than 20 years and therefore undergo more frequent sublimation compared to other comet populations. The JFCs therefore represent the ideal dynamical population for investigating the dust production rates at high-cadence. We analyzed observations by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) of 74 JFCs that reached perihelion in 2022 and 2023. The work contained in this study builds upon our previous work (Gillan et al. 2024…

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

Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Ruzin Aganoglu, Andrea Bossmann, Ulrike B\"ohm, Anja Metzelthin, Agnes Sandner, Iris Traulsen, Angelica Zacarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19021

Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Gender imbalance among German physicists persists, with fewer women in advanced degrees and research leadership roles. Although female enrollment in Physics programs increased slightly until 2022, potentially influenced by COVID-19 the long-term trend remains uncertain. Despite the rise in female Ph.D. students and foreign representation, female professors in Physics and Astronomy stagnated below 14 %, indicating significant underrepresentation. Anticipated revisions to the WissZeitVG law may i…

Eagles' A.J. Brown feels a 'little sad' for Treylon Burks after Titans' 2022 draft-day trade https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-aj-brown-feels-a-little-sad-treylon-burks-titans-2022-draft-day-trade

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#GenericKnockOffSongsOrPoems

Domestic 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

Domestic 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

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Veeti Ahvonen, Maurice Funk, Damian Heiman, Antti Kuusisto, Carsten Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01067 https://

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Transformers are the basis of modern large language models, but relatively little is known about their precise expressive power on graphs. We study the expressive power of graph transformers (GTs) by Dwivedi and Bresson (2020) and GPS-networks by Rampásek et al. (2022), both under soft-attention and average hard-attention. Our study covers two scenarios: the theoretical setting with real numbers and the more practical case with floats. With reals, we show that in restriction to vertex properti…

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

On Generators of Bloch groups of CM fields
Wenhuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05792

On Generators of Bloch groups of CM fields
This article generalizes the result of Burns et al (2022), to find an algorithm to find some elements generating a full-rank subgroup of the torsion-free part of Bloch group of a certain CM number field, and compute the rank of it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18154 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Emergent supercounterfluid and quantum phase diagram of two-component interacting bosons in one-dimensional optical lattice
Motivated by a recent experiment that realizes nearest-neighbor dipolar couplings in an optical lattice [C. Lagoin, $\textit{et al.}$, Nature $\textbf{609}$, 485 (2022)], we study a one-dimensional version of the two-component extended Bose-Hubbard model via the density-matrix renormalization group method. By using the nearest-neighbor and on-site interaction parameters from the experiment, we start by mapping the quantum phase diagram in the hopping parameters $t_{A}\mbox{-}t_{B}$ plane with b…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
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Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Love's Shifting Nature
#inspiration #grief #NowPlaying

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
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Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Organdy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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-…

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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 …

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Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Petrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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.

What's up with the Production of #EFuels in #Chile?
In 2022, #Siemens #Energy,

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

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Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
Sydney Anuyah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04240 https://

What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
In this short article, I leverage the National Crime Victimization Survey from 1992 to 2022 to examine how income, education, employment, and key demographic factors shape the type of crime victims experience (violent vs property). Using balanced classification splits and logistic regression models evaluated by F1-score, there is an isolation of the socioeconomic drivers of victimization "Group A" models and then an introduction of demographic factors such as age, gender, race, and marital stat…

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