@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-21 08:42:07
from my link log —
Someone’s been messing with Python’s floating point subnormals!
https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html
saved 2022-09-06
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-21 08:42:07
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-22 07:00:05
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 …
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:19:08
"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
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-23 07:19:30
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2026-07-16 02:14:08
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:
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-11 07:05:00
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-07-08 19:51:02
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 -…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-14 08:42:02
from my link log —
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.
https://grack.com/blog/2022/12/20/deriving-a-bit-twiddling-hack/
saved 2022-12-21 …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-07 18:40:53
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…
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-07-06 16:58:48
The International Online Organ Forum is the place to go if you are interested in organ music or think you might be. It's on several social media channels (not Mastodon - yet!). Sign-up for their free monthly newsletter and get an amazing free feature-length organ film each month, FREE too. https://io-of.org/st-vi…
@waidler@bayerwald.social2026-06-08 14:13:19
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.
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2026-06-14 06:08:48
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.
@sakhavi@aoir.social2026-07-03 19:15:34
Pleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-16 12:18:08
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-01 08:08:09
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baccara:
🎵 Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
#Baccara
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/baccara-yes-sir-i-can-boogie-geh-haim-illegal-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LScqpywMqGcnum6nNaxXX
@servelan@newsie.social2026-07-08 18:37:29
"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/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-16 06:36:09
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
New Order:
🎵 Bizarre Love Triangle
#NewOrder
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-waldo-edit-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wVViUl2xSRoDK2T7dMZbR
@arXiv_physicsaoph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-05-26 07:53:47
Seeing Inside the Storm: Improving Nowcasting by Integrating Meteorological Drivers
Minghui Qiu, Jun Chen, Lin Chen, Weifeng Chen, Shuxin Zhong, Zhidan Liu, Yu Zhang, Kaishun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24067
arXiv:2605.24067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Most nowcasting systems, built on radar reflectivity, focus on current precipitation, ignoring the atmospheric precursors -- such as low-level convergence, turbulent eddies, and latent heating -- that offer a fleeting window to foresee storm birth. We introduce MeteoLogist, a physics-inspired radar intelligence framework that models the full life cycle of convection -- from its precursors to organized storm evolution. However, exploiting these precursors is non-trivial: they originate from multiple meteorological drivers -- thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical -- that evolve asynchronously (C1) and remain spatially fragmented (C2). To this end, MeteoLogist designs three tightly integrated components. The Physics-Tailored Encoders process radar echoes according to their intrinsic physical scales and semantics, forming thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical streams that capture distinct dynamical regimes. The Temporal-Phase Aligner addresses C1 by leveraging causal temporal attention to capture when and how different drivers interact and activate. The Cross-Field Spatial Aggregator addresses C2 through cross-regional fusion, aligning weak and scattered precursors across neighboring cells to expose upstream triggers and enforce spatial coherence. Evaluated on 3D-NEXRAD (2020--2022, US-wide), MeteoLogist boosts high-impact detection (CSI40) by 9.7% over strong baselines, and achieves a remarkable 37.67% gain during the storm-developing stage -- demonstrating true foresight in sensing storms before they appear. The code can be found in the supplementary material.
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@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-06 06:28:21