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Despite a crypto rally, VC funds focused on crypto are struggling to raise money, as limited partners prioritize tangible gains after the 2022 wipeout (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Crypto Venture Capital Funds Under Pressure to Produce Returns
Judging by a record Bitcoin rally that fueled a $1 trillion jump in the digital-asset market this year, crypto fever is back. But look beneath the surface to trends in venture capital and a far more sober picture emerges.

The Work Of Wellbeing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Work Of Wellbeing | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Work Of Wellbeing Host: Amy Green Category: Education Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2022 Wellness and wellbeing is essential for everyone to…

Reddit files for a US IPO, says it had $804M in annual sales in 2023, up 20% YoY, and a net loss of $90.8M, compared to a net loss of $158.6M in 2022 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/reddit-files-to-list-ipo-on-nyse…

In 2009, a Turkish graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Erdal #Arikan, published a paper that solved a fundamental problem in information theory, allowing for much faster and more accurate data transfers.
Unable to get an academic appointment or funding to …

The U.S. Needs a Million Talents Program to Retain Technology Leadership
Immigration is the United States’ secret sauce—including in its competition with China.

As I'm currently in the midst of preparing for #Greenland #fieldwork, I stumbled again across this fantastic piece in the danish newspaper @… that ver…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/japan-zero-carbon-village-climate/?itid=m…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future
The town estimates it is about 80 percent of the way toward achieving its goal of becoming totally carbon neutral.

Reddit files for a US IPO, says it had $804M in annual sales in 2023, up 20% YoY, and a net loss of $90.8M, compared to a net loss of $158.6M in 2022 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/reddit-files-to-list-ipo-on-nyse…

Cowboys' 2024 draft strategy has changed, and not for the better https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_2024_draft_strategy_has_changed_and_not_for_the_better/s1_17313_40151713

Cowboys' 2024 draft strategy has changed, and not for the better
Take a look at the Cowboys' most recent draft selections, and which ones stand out.  2020 and 2021 stand out in a good way as the team got CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons in back-to-back years. 2017, 2019, and 2022 (as of right now) stand out in not such a good way. Now look back at 2020 and 2021 and tell me what they both have in common. If you guessed they drafted BPA, or "best player available," you would be correct. The Cowboys did not draft for need, they simply let the board work out and …

Joni Mitchell's music returns to Spotify after she removed it in 2022 in protest of what she called "lies" about vaccines on the platform, following Neil Young (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/arts/music/joni-mi…

Joni Mitchell, Following Neil Young, Returns to Spotify After Protest
Her music has quietly reappeared on the streaming service, two years after a departure over what she called “lies” about Covid-19 vaccines in podcasts.

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Edwards Smiltens about Latvia active support to Ukraine “Latvia was the first country to start supporting Ukraine on a large scale. It was 14 February 2022. We raised flags in Riga. We started sending Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/edwards-smiltens-abou…

@… @… nehmen wir mal die Zahlen aus dem Artikel:
1/2020 7,4%, 1/2021 9,3% und 1/2022 11,6% ergeben 31% vom ersten Quartal 2019 bis zum ersten Quartal 2022.
Das sind allerdings alle Wohnimmobilien, nicht nur gebrauchte. Bei gebrauchten…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/japan-zero-carbon-village-climate/?itid=m…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future
The town estimates it is about 80 percent of the way toward achieving its goal of becoming totally carbon neutral.

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/3/23049084/ford-f100-eluminator-restomod-electric-vehicle

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods
Ford built an electric 1978 F-100 restomod that uses the company's new crate motor instead of donor Tesla motors like other restomods. It encourages enthusiasts and mod shops to build more, which is great for the environment and a model for the right to repair.

Could have been a nice short film
I rated Brightwood (2022) 3/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14736734/

Das ist der schlauste FOCUS Artikel den Ich je gelesen habe.

Prozess in Salzburg - Beifahrer (19) stirbt, Todeslenker (21) bereut #News #Nachrichten

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
Louie Bernhardt, Volker Schlue, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12878

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
In light of recent work of the third author, we revisit a classic example given by Fritz John of a semi-linear wave equation which exhibits finite in time blow up for all compactly supported data. We present the construction of future global solutions from asymptotic data given in arXiv:2204.12870(2022) for this specific example, and clarify the relation of this result of Yu to John's theorem. Furthermore we present a novel blow up result for finite energy solutions satisfying a sign condition …

"So kannst du eine Abschiebung legal verhindern"
https://www.zeit.de/zett/politik/2022-05/abschiebung-verhindern-flucht-asyl#flexible-toc

Flucht: So kannst du eine Abschiebung legal verhindern
Wer eine Abschiebung verhindern möchte, sollte früh juristischen Beistand suchen. Auch wenn eine Person bereits im Abschiebeflugzeug sitzt, kann man noch handeln.

Was ich auch am Lesen von Büchereibüchern schätze? Dass ich manchmal welche nicht verlängern kann, weil vorgemerkt - und dann bisweilen versuche, sie noch am gleichen Tag zu starten und komplett zu lesen. Heute/jetzt: Gallant [2022] von V. E. Schwab; die Bib hat bis 19 offen, die Schrift ist normal bis groß bei knapp 300 Seiten... machbar, würde ich sagen. Wir werden sehen!

Trump says he wants to debate Biden (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/donald-trump-says-wants-debate-joe-biden-rcna137340

Donald Trump says he wants to debate Joe Biden
The Republican National Committee decided in 2022 to withdraw from the quadrennial events set up by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Please sign the petition asking Ross and Burlington to Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, CEH's testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. T…

Tell Ross and Burlington: Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, our testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories we purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Ross and Burlington cater to lower-income consumers, and most of…

The Election Act 2022 provides a list of valid government-accepted photo IDs. This list has forms of ID targeted at the older generation, such as a 60 Oyster Card. However, almost none are for young people, not even the Young Persons Railcard. #GE2024 #ToryCorruption

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NFC foe throws painful wrench into Cowboys' free agency plans with defensive signing https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfc_foe_throws_painful_wrench_into_cowboys_free_agency_plans_wit…

NFC foe throws painful wrench into Cowboys' free agency plans with defensive signing
The Dallas Cowboys wanted Johnathan Hankins back and the veteran nose tackle wanted to stick around. But the franchise wasn't up for the bidding war with the Seattle Seahawks, leading to Hankins leaving the Cowboys after spending 2023 and part of 2022 with the franchise.  The news, reported by Mike Garafolo from NFL Network, is an unexpected development due to Hankins' projected low cost as well as the Cowboys' painfully evident need for defensive line depth.  It's a truly tough pill to swall…

Ukraine war latest: US reportedly prepared for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/ukraine-war-latest.html

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-altern…

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Post News, a Twitter alternative run by the former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, is shutting down. Bardin says the platform “is not growing fast enough.”

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-sign-former-second-round-cb-who-has-not-play…

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021
Kevin King missed the 2022 and 2023 seasons due to personal reasons and an injury

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

On optimal error rates for strong approximation of SDEs with a drift coefficient of fractional Sobolev regularity
Simon Ellinger, Thomas M\"uller-Gronbach, Larisa Yaroslavtseva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13732

On optimal error rates for strong approximation of SDEs with a drift coefficient of fractional Sobolev regularity
We study strong approximation of scalar additive noise driven stochastic differential equations (SDEs) at time point $1$ in the case that the drift coefficient is bounded and has Sobolev regularity $s\in(0,1)$. Recently, it has been shown in [arXiv:2101.12185v2 (2022)] that for such SDEs the equidistant Euler approximation achieves an $L^2$-error rate of at least $(1+s)/2$, up to an arbitrary small $\varepsilon$, in terms of the number of evaluations of the driving Brownian motion $W$. In the p…

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
United Talent Agency (UTA) financial filing reveals it paid £43.3M ($55M) for Curtis Brown in 2022. The deal helped supercharge its sales.

Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:

Excess Mortality 5% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Expectations for 2023 - Actuaries Digital
Total excess mortality for 2023 is 5% (95% confidence interval: 3% to 7%) or +8,400 deaths – i.e., there were 8,400 more deaths than expected if the pandemic had not happened.

Investigation: Leading Polish fashion retailer fakes exit from Russian market: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/investigation-leading-polish.html

Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24099583/block-crypto…

Block’s new crypto wallet can only be purchased with real cash
Block has started shipping its Bitkey hardware wallet. The Bitcoin wallet costs $150 and comes with a fingerprint scanner and NFC chip.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04765 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Measuring the performance of investments in information security startups: An empirical analysis by cybersecurity sectors using Crunchbase data
Early-stage firms play a significant role in driving innovation and creating new products and services, especially for cybersecurity. Therefore, evaluating their performance is crucial for investors and policymakers. This work presents a financial evaluation of early-stage firms' performance in 19 cybersecurity sectors using a private-equity dataset from 2010 to 2022 retrieved from Crunchbase. We observe firms, their primary and secondary activities, funding rounds, and pre and post-money valua…

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
Louie Bernhardt, Volker Schlue, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12878

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
In light of recent work of the third author, we revisit a classic example given by Fritz John of a semi-linear wave equation which exhibits finite in time blow up for all compactly supported data. We present the construction of future global solutions from asymptotic data given in arXiv:2204.12870(2022) for this specific example, and clarify the relation of this result of Yu to John's theorem. Furthermore we present a novel blow up result for finite energy solutions satisfying a sign condition …

Der Preis für #Weizen ist nach dem Höchstwert 2022 wieder auf das Niveau von 2021 gesunken (Stand Februar 2024). Trotzdem verkauft #Harry Brot sein Toastbrot immer noch für 1,89 Euro während andere Hersteller den Preis für #Toastbrot

Poll: 70% of Ukrainians have friends or relatives with front-line experience: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/poll-of-ukrainians.html

RFK Jr. blames young campaign staffer for TikTok thirst trap comment (Kelly Garrity/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/rfk-jr-tiktok-thirst-trap-00139139

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 05.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 36. Atombombe "Kestrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Politico reshuffles its six-strong London Playbook newsletters team ahead of an expected UK general election; Politico's UK staff has grown 3x since Dec. 2022 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/politico-uk-london-playbook-growth…

Politico reshuffles London team after year of headcount and revenue growth
After a year of growth Politico has reshuffled its London Playbook team as it prepares for the general election expected later this year.

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

As bitcoin rallies past $67K and nears its all-time high, Coinbase's stock, which hit $46.43 last year, soars to $229.15, nearly doubling in the past month (Niamh Rowe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/04/coinbase-shares-double-crypto…

Coinbase shrugs off site crash as shares of the top U.S. crypto exchange surge
Shares in Coinbase were up 14% on Monday, the biggest daily jump since January 2022, thanks to crypto's latest bull run.

Combining a ground-based UV network with satellite maps: A case study for Germany
Barbara Klotz (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Verena Schenzinger (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Michael Schwarzmann (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Axel Kreuter (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, Luf…

Combining a ground-based UV network with satellite maps: A case study for Germany
A study for the comprehensive information of current UV exposure for the area of Germany, based on the method for near real time calculation of UV Index maps used in the framework of the Austrian UV Monitoring Network, is presented. For the area of Germany about 22.000 surface UV Index maps were calculated for the year 2022 via the radiative transfer model libRadtran by incorporating daily forecast data for ozone, albedo and aerosols from the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service and taking…

Plus de la moitié de la population en Suisse a pris un médicament sur une période de sept jours en 2022. Cette consommation ne cesse d’augmenter depuis 30 ans. https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/14662657-la-consommation-danalgesiques-monte-en-fleche-en-suisse.html