Macht uns KI dumm ?
Ende 2022 drängte sich ChatGPT in unser Leben und hat es schnell tiefgreifend verändert. Vielleicht werden künftige Geschichtsbücher die generative KI einmal mit der Erfindung des Buchdrucks vergleichen. Der Begriff „Künstliche Intelligenz“ ist laut der Philosophin Anne Alombert irreführend, denn er vergleicht uns mit Maschinen und entpolitisiert die Debatte. […]
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First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…
Thanks about being so open and honest with me. I truly feel with you, Richard
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Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …
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 …
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…
Me Playing Overwatch for the first time since 2022: yeah, this is still fun! Wonder where all the toxic people went?
Me playing OW in comp: ah
Home 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 -…
I'm just cleaning up old video clips in my archive to reclaim some space.
And there I found this short clip from a #cycling tour near the #Tegernsee in summer 2022.
Well, needless to say that it can be quite frequented - it really IS a nice place! (and my
"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.
Erneut flutschte ein korrigierter Aufsatz meiner Wenigkeit in Richtung Verlag, auf dass er dieses Jahr noch publiziert werden möge (er wurde 2022 geschrieben). Das gibt Hoffnung für den nächsten Aufsatz, der soeben Gestalt annimmt. See you in 2030!
Communication de la Commission
C(2026) 4730 final, 10.07.2026
Guidelines on the Application of Article 13(5) of Directive (EU) 2022/2557 on the Resilience of Critical Entities
La Commission européenne a adopté les lignes directrices non contraignantes prévue Š l’Article 13 (5) de la Directive CER qui visent Š préciser les mesures de #résilience que les
In 2022 I drove across Canada from Ottawa to northern BC. I remember driving for three full days around the top of Lake Superior with a wall of mostly dead trees on either side of the road the whole way, thinking, man when Ontario burns, there's going to be no stopping it. And here we are.
Via Bluesky:
In 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts
—including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith
—released a report titled
"Lost, Not Stolen", concluding that
“Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors”
and that there was “absolutely no evidence of fraud” sufficient to alter the results.
Independent reviews, …
A reminder that the obsession 50 years ago was #overpopulation — it was the scary message next to every practical environmental message about pollution, etc
Fast forward to now, and the opposite is true — no longer a case of “don’t worry, it’s just wealthy nations breed less”
In fact, environmentalism was always right about pollution — but the scary message is everything cost…
@…
Oh no, it's not a religion.
Oh yes, it is!
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec
Understated, powerful, moving, frozen timeless calm. On perma repeat.
Lauge - Chernobyl (2022)
#Music4Coding …
#messi heading to his 3rd World Cup
Lionel Messi has played in three World Cup finals. Championship match in 2014 (against Germany) and 2022 (against France), and in 2026 (against Spain)
And #Ronaldo has never played in WC final.
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Bye". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
To those apologizing for being tricked into supporting #Fetterman in the 2022 Senator primary:
No apology necessary. Per the saying, “fool me once, shame on you.” There was no indication he’d go MAGA back in 2022. The shame is on Fetterman for misrepresenting himself.
The second part, “fool me twice, shame on me” applies when you had ample warning. Example: 3x Turnip voters upset thei…
„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum
A 2022 risk assessment by the Bucharest City Committee for Emergency Situations estimated that
a major earthquake could severely damage about 23,000 buildings across the city,
kill approximately 6,500 people
and leave a further 16,000 seriously injured
https…
Amazon-Prime-Sammelklage: Mehr als 130.000 Verbraucher im Klageregister
Mehr als 130.000 Verbraucher haben sich für die Sammelklage gegen die Prime-Preiserhöhung von 2022 angemeldet. Die Rückzahlung könnte bis zu 60 Euro betragen.
"Fatih Birol said that Europe’s low electrification rate — electricity’s share of the energy consumed in the EU — of around 23 per cent is holding back the bloc’s competitiveness and economic “sovereignty”.
[..]
In a joint interview with Europe’s energy commissioner Dan JŸrgensen, both leaders said that Europe needed to electrify its economy faster after facing two energy crises in less than five years."
"Open Access Publishing Fund Efficiency: An Expansion and Replication of Luo et al. (2022)"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30968
"This study’s objective was to replicate and test Luo et al.’s (2022) proposals regarding open access publishing fund efficiency, specifically the time ef…
Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats
The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.
The Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…
📢 Weidel und Chrupalla als AfD-Vorsitzende wiedergewählt
Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla bleiben Co-Chefs der AfD. Der Bundesparteitag in Erfurt bestätigte Chrupalla mit gut 70 Prozent im Amt - deutlich weniger als beim Parteitag vor zwei Jahren. Weidel erhielt etwas mehr als 81 Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen. Chrupalla steht seit 2019 an der Spitze der in Teilen rechtsextremen Partei, Weidel seit 2022.
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dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 24 nodes and 122 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
i'm finna sneak into the fourth of july parade in the a.m., which has become sort of an annual tradition
in recent years i've been forced to walk alone, as the local politicos found my sign (DOWN WITH CARS on one side, UPZONE EVERYTHING on the other) off-key
new sign this year: POWER TO THE PEOPLE on one side, HANDS OFF CUBA & IRAN on the other. i'm guessing i'll be marching alone again #alas
"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 17. Juni 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Tiny Tot". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.
Home 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 -…
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 …
SEC-Klage zu Twitter-Übernahme: Elon Musk will 1,5 Millionen US-Dollar bezahlen
Anfang 2022 hat Elon Musk heimlich angefangen, Aktien von Twitter zu kaufen. Damit hat er Geld gespart. Dafür will er nun 1,5 Millionen US-Dollar Strafe zahlen.
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Trump bricht bei „Meet the Press" (NBC) das Interview ab, als Moderatorin Kristen Welker ihn nach Belegen für seine „rigged elections"-Behauptung fragt. Seine Antwort: „Ich muss nur hinschauen." Auf ihren Einwand, das sei kein Beweis, beschimpft er NBC, ABC, CBS & CNN als „krumme Sender" und geht. Belege? Wie immer: keine. NBC stufte danach mehrere Aussagen als falsch ein. Schon 2022 lief ein NPR-Interview genauso.
Good morning gang! Let’s solve the mystery of the missing funnel steps!
The most revealing fact about Google’s water use in The Dalles is not just the size of the number.
It is how difficult that number was for the public to obtain.
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
— then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply
Heute vor 61 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
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
My mother brought me to this country from Peru as a young boy.
She always told me that we need to work hard, give back, and help our community,
because that is what it means to be an American.
When she died of COVID-19,
I promised I would fight like hell for every family like ours.
In 2022 my community sent me to Congress - the first openly LGBTQ immigrant ever elected - to do just that.
I’m Robert Garcia – now the top Democrat on the House Ov…
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 …
"U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a 2022 injunction against applying the law to colleges and universities"
Court issues major blow to DeSantis's "Stop WOKE Act" & calls it "a breathtaking assertion of power" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/court-issues-major-blow-to-desantiss-stop-woke-act-calls-it-a-breathtaking-assertion-of-power/
Oh wow I’ve amassed over 2000 followers on the Fediverse! That‘s absolutely ludicrous 😍
Vaak ben ik het wel met Yusibov eens, maar in dit geval niet. De oorlog winnen en een sterke Poetin in het zadel houden in 2022 had niets opgelost.
Rusland moet uiteindelijk zien dat Poetin geen oplossing biedt. De oorlog die Oekraïne nu naar Rusland brengt kan daar hopelijk het nodige aan bijdragen.
De oorlog van dit moment was in 2022 niet mogelijk.
Isa Yusibov: "For four years, European leade…"
https://mastodon.nl/@isayusibov.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/116895976760882255
Cheeger Inequalities for the Persistent Laplacian
Magnus Bakke Botnan, Rui Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02846 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02846
arXiv:2606.02846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study Cheeger-type inequalities for persistent Laplacians associated with inclusions of simplicial complexes $\mathcal{K}\hookrightarrow \mathcal{L}$. We introduce a persistent up $p$-Laplacian $\Delta_{q,p,\mathrm{up}}^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ for $p\geq 1$. For $p=2$, this recovers the usual persistent up Laplacian, while for $p=1$ it yields a nonzero persistent Cheeger constant $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$. We prove a Cheeger-type inequality relating $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ to the smallest nonzero eigenvalue of $\Delta_{q,\mathrm{up}}^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$. This gives a persistent extension of recent work by Jost and Zhang (Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci., 2024; arXiv:2302.01069).
We then study two more structured settings. Under a locally complete $q$-skeleton assumption on $\mathcal{K}$, we extend the complete-skeleton isoperimetric inequality of Parzanchevski--Rosenthal--Tessler (Combinatorica, 2016; arXiv:1207.0638) to the persistent setting. For orientable $(q 1)$-dimensional pseudomanifolds, we prove a Kron-type reduction of the persistent up Laplacian to a vertex- and edge-weighted graph Laplacian, possibly with Dirichlet boundary terms, and obtain two-sided Cheeger inequalities; this is related to the dual-graph perspective in the work of Steenbergen--Klivans--Mukherjee (Adv. Appl. Math., 2014; arXiv:1209.5091). We also describe the nonzero persistent Cheeger constant $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ explicitly in terms of the dual graph in the non-branching pseudomanifold case. Finally, for graph inclusions $H\hookrightarrow G$, we compare the persistent Cheeger constants introduced here with the Kron-reduction Cheeger constants of M\'emoli et al. (SIAM J. Math. Data Sci., 2022; arXiv:2012.02808).
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Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/370105/zec-crashes-38-as-zcash-discloses…
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
Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.
Girls just wanna have Pfand
dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 15 nodes and 83 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
from my link log —
On the DeepMind AlphaTensor new matrix multiplication algorithms.
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/on-alphatensors-new-matrix-multiplication-algorithms/
saved 2022-10-07
In the Summer of 2022, Greek politician Stelios Kouloglou was investigating how intrusive spyware had been used to hack business leaders, law enforcement officials, and politicians.
As part of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee,
set up to investigate the use of the notorious Pegasus spyware and other variants,
Kouloglou travelled to interview spyware victims and probe high-profile cases.
That fall, according to a new forensic analysis,
💥Kouloglou’s iPhone …
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
Putin just unleashed a nuclear-capable ballistic missile in the heart of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
This was part of one of the biggest attacks on the capital since the start of Russia’s war in 2022.
And the Russians say this is just the “beginning” of a new wave of strikes on “decision-making centers” in Kyiv.
And what has Trump or Vance or even Rubio said?
-- Nothing.
Instead, last week they extended the waiver of sanction…
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 …
„Eichhörnchen sind ja auch nur kleine Nussfüchse“
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