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Bandura and Sopilka
(instruments from the Ukraine that inspire me)
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Bandura and Sopilka #NowPlaying
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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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,111,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

"Microsoft und die Wahrheit – eine Revolution": @… einige Ereignisse rund um Microsoft und deren Vertrauenswürdigkeit seit 2022 aufgeschrieben. Die Tage wollte ich mal nur die Ereignisse 2025 auflisten (Outlook-Ausfälle, schwerer SharePoint-Security-Leak, Microsoft muss EU-Daten an USA übermitteln, Exchange und Exchange online und so weiter…

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
#OpenAccess

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…

Jazz Quintet Release – Put The Q In Jazz #jazz #music https://muz4now.com/2022/jazz-quintet-r…

Jazz Quintet Release - Put The Q In Jazz
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Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

E-Commerce Startup OpenStore Cuts Valuation By 95%, Taps New CEO
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding as it prepares to narrow its focus to building up menswear brand Jack Archer.

writer identity and voice https://patthomson.net/2025/07/30/writer-identity-and-voice/

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

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team #musician #musicianresources https://muz4now…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team
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The Baltimore Banner, launched in 2022 as a nonprofit news outlet focused on Greater Baltimore and Maryland, gets a $200K grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/banner-pr/henry-luce-f…

The Baltimore Banner receives $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to advance local journalism
The grant will support The Banner’s mission to deliver high-impact, nonprofit journalism.

from my link log —
Remote reboots with encrypted disks on Arch Linux.
https://tavianator.com/2022/remote_reboots.html
saved 2025-01-03

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden. https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Cowboys pondršn a prueba a La’el Collins https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-pondran-a-prueba-a-la-el-collins-esta-semana

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/…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,036,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Private and public school efficiency gaps in Latin America-A combined DEA and machine learning approach based on PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25353 https…

Private and public school efficiency gaps in Latin America-A combined DEA and machine learning approach based on PISA 2022
Latin America's education systems are fragmented and segregated, with substantial differences by school type. The concept of school efficiency (the ability of school to produce the maximum level of outputs given available resources) is policy relevant due to scarcity of resources in the region. Knowing whether private and public schools are making an efficient use of resources -and which are the leading drivers of efficiency- is critical, even more so after the learning crisis brought by the CO…

Everyday Beauty – Finding Music Everywhere #music https://muz4now.com/2022/everyday-beauty-finding-music-everywhere

Everyday Beauty - Finding Music Everywhere
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Bears, GM Ryan Poles agree to contract extension through 2029: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6488952/2025/07/11/bears-ryan-poles-contract-extension/

Cowboys pondršn a prueba a La’el Collins https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-pondran-a-prueba-a-la-el-collins-esta-semana

Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), which claimed responsibility for 1,000 DDoS attacks since 2022, and arrest two people (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Stereo performance of SST-1M at different altitudes
Patrik \v{C}echvala (for the SST-1M collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M collaboration), Ji\v{r}\'i Bla\v{z}ek (for the SST-1M collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M collaboration), Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M collaboration)

Stereo performance of SST-1M at different altitudes
The SST-1M telescopes are a pair of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) that have been operating at the Ondřejov Observatory (510 m a.s.l.) in the Czech Republic since 2022. Optimized for detecting gamma rays in the energy range 1-300 TeV, they are capable of performing both mono and stereo observations. Despite challenging atmospheric conditions, SST-1M has successfully detected several galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources with energies reaching up to 200 TeV during its o…

DreamState – Liminal Space – #DreamState #NowPlaying #dreamstate #musicvideos

DreamState - Liminal Space - #DreamState #NowPlaying
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Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

$q$-Congruences for Z.-W. Sun's generalized polynomials $w^{(\alpha)}_k(x)$
Lin-Yue Li, Rong-Hua Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04653 https://

$q$-Congruences for Z.-W. Sun's generalized polynomials $w^{(α)}_k(x)$
In 2022, Z.-W. Sun defined \begin{equation*} w_k^{(α)}{(x)}=\sum_{j=1}^{k}w(k,j)^αx^{j-1}, \end{equation*} where $k,α$ are positive integers and $w(k,j)=\frac{1}{j}\binom{k-1}{j-1}\binom{k+j}{j-1}$. Let $(x)_{0}=1$ and $(x)_{n}=x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)$ for all $n\geq 1$. In this paper, it is proved by $q$-congruences that for any positive integers ${α,β, m,n,r}$, we have \begin{equation*} \frac{(2,n)}{n(n+1)(n+2)}\sum_{k=1}^{n}k^r(k+1)^r(2k+1)w_{k}^{(α)}(x)^{m}\in\mathbb{Z}[x], \end{equation*…

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How Ukrainian teens are training for war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/how-ukrainian-teens-are-training.html

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 …

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

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 …

Bemerkenswerte schlechte Umfrageergebnisse für die Regierung.
Auch für Merz: 30% sind mit seiner Arbeit zufrieden, 59% sehen Merz kritisch (laut Insa). Mit dem damaligen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz waren nach 100 Tagen im Amt im März 2022 43% der Befragten zufrieden, nur 41% unzufrieden.

Steam for Chromebooks will stop working in January 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/07/steam-chromebook-2026/

Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026
After introducing in 2022, Steam for Chromebook will stop working in early 2026. At the time, it was a big effort...

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
Marcia Fampa, Jon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05066…

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
In 2022, we published a book, \emph{Maximum-Entropy Sampling: Algorithms and Application (Springer)}. Since then, there have been several notable advancements on this topic. In this manuscript, we survey some recent highlights.

Observation of VER J2019 368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16408

Observation of VER J2019+368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
The Single-Mirror Small Size Telescope (SST-1M) is a small Cherenkov telescope designed to detect gamma rays with energies more than about 1 TeV. The optical design of the SST-1M follows the Davies-Cotton concept to ensure good off-axis performance. In 2022, two SST-1M telescope prototypes were installed in Ondrejov, Czech Republic, and stereoscopic observations of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been performed since then. VER J2019+368 is an unidentified very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray s…

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49ers QB Brock Purdy on losing Deebo Samuel: 'It sucks' https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-on-losing-deebo-samuel-it-sucks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Cribs:
🎵 Men's Needs
#TheCribs
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/album/men-s-needs-women-s-needs-whatever-2022-definitive-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qel23hQWhHT3qGewBQ0pE

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Ukrainian detained in Italy for alleged Nord Stream sabotage, media report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/ukrainian-detained-in-italy-for.html

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NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
Aditya S. Mondal, Mayukh Pahari, Gulab C. Dewangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11231

NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
The source GS~1826-24 is a neutron star low mass X-ray binary known as the 'clocked burster' because of its extremely regular bursting behavior. We report on the detection of a long type-I X-ray burst from this source. We perform a detailed spectroscopic analysis of the long X-ray burst, lasting for $\sim 600$ s, seen in the NuSTAR observation carried out on 2022 September. The persistent emission is well described by an absorbed thermal Comptonization model (nthcomp), and the source exhibits a…

Outward and Inward – Sharing and Introspection #music https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-inward-sharing-and-introspection

Outward and Inward - Sharing and Introspection
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Puppy Guru – 4 more life tips from my dog #inspiration #puppy https://muz4now.com/2022/puppy-guru-4-

Puppy Guru - 4 more life tips from my dog
Stan Stewart - @muz4now