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A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-15/ub…

Moving from #SpringBoot to #Quarkus by @…

People I Care About #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/people-i-care-about

People I Care About
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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...

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

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 …

These Women Are My Musical Influencers #musician https://muz4now.com/2022/these-women-are-my-musical-influencers

These Women Are My Musical Influencers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08) - Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean -

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08)
Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean

IMO, #tagging is not that intuitive as it seems.
If you do follow my guide with 10 rules, you should get much more out of #tags as you do get otherwise:

"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…

Jupiter's UV auroral response to a magnetospheric compression event: #Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, briefly brightened the ultraviolet light displays.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
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Sammy Stein – Whatever You Wonder About Jazz #jazz https://muz4now.com/2022/sammy-stein-whatever-you-wonder-about-jazz

Sammy Stein - Whatever You Wonder About Jazz
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing to reinstate
🆘 a full exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from its medical benefits package,
according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
The exclusion, which
restricted coverage of abortion services for veterans,
had been in place since the agency's medical benefits package was first established in 1999
until it was removed by 2022
during the administration of former Presid…

$q$-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*…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions and their application to the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture
Yaozhou Fan, Xing Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23222 https://

Weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions and their application to the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture
We introduce the new concept of weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions -- a novel family within the broader class of Katalan functions -- that unifies and extends both $K$-$k$-Schur functions and closed $k$-Schur Katalan functions. This new notion exhibits a fundamental alternating property under certain conditions on the indexed $k$-bounded partitions. As a central application, we resolve the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture -- posed by Blasiak, Morse, and Seelinger in 2022 -- for a wide class o…

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.

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

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.

Confessions Radio
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Confessions Radio | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Confessions Radio Hosts: Amma and Chrystal Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Interviews & Chats, Personal Stories First Episode: 2022 Confessions is the go-to discussion space for all…

Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats

Posit

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.

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

Investigating Energy-Dependent Anisotropy in Cosmic Rays with IceTop Surface Array
Rasha Abbasi (for the IceCube Collaboration), Paolo Desiati (for the IceCube Collaboration), Juan Carlos D\'iaz V\'elez (for the IceCube Collaboration), Frank McNally (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23044

Investigating Energy-Dependent Anisotropy in Cosmic Rays with IceTop Surface Array
This study presents preliminary results from the analysis of cosmic-ray anisotropy using air showers detected by the IceTop surface array between 2011 and 2022. With improved statistical precision and updated Monte Carlo simulation events compared to previous IceTop reports, we investigate anisotropy patterns across four energy ranges spanning from 300 TeV to 6.9 PeV. This work extends the measurement of cosmic-ray anisotropy in the southern hemisphere to higher energies than previously achieve…

The Nightingale
#PeaceNow #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/the-nightingale-nowp…

The Nightingale #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Chengyao Zhang, Ankang Gao, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00112 https://arxiv…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Recent theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed that flapping compliant membrane wings can significantly enhance propulsive performance (e.g. Tzezana and Breuer, 2019, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 871-888) and energy harvesting efficiency (e.g. Mathai et al., 2022, J. Fluid Mech., 942, R4) compared to rigid foils. Here, we numerically investigate the effects of the stretching coefficient (or aeroelastic number), $K_S$, the flapping frequency, $St_c$, and the pitching amplitude, $θ_0$,…

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…

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-nomi.html

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Since ChatGPT’s late 2022 launch, everyday people have formed emotional connections to chatbots, describing them as deep friendships and even life partnerships.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
alt‐J:
🎵 U&ME (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022)
#altJ

Love’s Shifting Nature album preview – 3 #piano #improv tracks #music

Love's Shifting Nature album preview - 3 #piano #improv tracks
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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.

Bills $21 million free agent starter predicted to sign with Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/bills-21-million-free-agent-starter-predicted-sign-raiders/c321a5…

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Archisman Panigrahi, Bitan Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23783 https://

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Projected branes are constituted by only a small subset of sites of a higher-dimensional crystal, otherwise placed on a hyperplane oriented at an irrational or a rational slope therein, for which the effective Hamiltonian is constructed by systematically integrating out the sites of the parent lattice that fall outside such branes [Commun. Phys. 5, 230 (2022)]. Specifically, when such a brane is constructed from a square lattice, it gives rise to an aperiodic Fibonacci quasi-crystal or its rati…

DreamState Suite Two – Liminal Space #indiemusic https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-suite-two-liminal-space

DreamState Suite Two - Liminal Space
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Another data point - flights to/from #Japan and the #UnitedStates #US are the cheapest I've seen since, basically, the border reopened to tourism back in 2022.

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
Amarendra Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23297 https://a…

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
This paper introduces a novel Proxy-Enhanced Correlated Random Effects Double Machine Learning (P-CRE-DML) framework to estimate causal effects in panel data with non-linearities and unobserved heterogeneity. Combining Double Machine Learning (DML, Chernozhukov et al., 2018), Correlated Random Effects (CRE, Mundlak, 1978), and lagged variables (Arellano & Bond, 1991) and innovating within the CRE-DML framework (Chernozhukov et al., 2022; Clarke & Polselli, 2025; Fuhr & Papies, 2024), we apply P…

Enttäuscht vom Verband - ÖSV-Goldhamster startet künftig für Tschechien #News #Nachrichten

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

"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/

Some Mathematical Problems Behind Lattice-Based Cryptography
Chuanming Zong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23438 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Some Mathematical Problems Behind Lattice-Based Cryptography
In 1994, P. Shor discovered quantum algorithms which can break both the RSA cryptosystem and the ElGamal cryptosystem. In 2007, D-Wave demonstrated the first quantum computer. These events and further developments have brought a crisis to secret communication. In 2016, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a global project to solicit and select a handful of encryption algorithms with the ability to resist quantum computer attacks. In 2022, it announced four candidat…

Love's Shifting Nature
- instrumental music inspired by grief -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/loves-shifting-nature-nowplaying/

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Yubo Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23230 https://

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
This paper examines how digital transformation reshapes employment structures within Chinese listed firms, focusing on occupational functions and task intensity. Drawing on recruitment data classified under ISCO-08 and the Chinese Standard Occupational Classification 2022, we categorize jobs into five functional groups: management, professional, technical, auxiliary, and manual. Using a task-based framework, we construct routine, abstract, and manual task intensity indices through keyword analy…

Russia jails man for 16 years over pro-Ukraine cyberattacks on critical infrastructure https://therecord.media/russia-jails-man-over-pro-ukraine-cyberattacks

2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour bei den Schachfreunden Sailauf und haben dort den ganzen Tag Schach gespielt. Am Vormittag haben wir im Schulzentrum unsere Bretter aufgebaut und auch Training für Anfänger gegeben. Nachmittags sind wir dann mit unseren Sachen in den Park gezogen, wo auch viele Schüler:innen vorbeikamen um Schach zu spielen.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Anna Calvi:
🎵 Ain't No Grave (6 Music Session, 19 May 2022)
#AnnaCalvi
https://annacalvi.bandcamp.com/track/aint-no-grave
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EioJrDfnqs6OiCTRxSGn1

AI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech for mid to senior level staffers, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d48e7cfe-7b04-4cdd-8769-c88c83522118

AI talent wars lead to superstar salaries for top tech staff
OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

The Influence of Earth, Wind, and Fire #music https://muz4now.com/2022/the-influence-of-earth-wind-and-fire

The Influence of Earth, Wind, and Fire
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durc…

Create connection to end the tragedies #relationship https://muz4now.com/2022/create-connection-to-end-the-tragedies

Create connection to end the tragedies
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

What have I learned from music? #music https://muz4now.com/2022/what-have-i-learned-from-music

What have I learned from music?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

The Advantages of #Text-Based #Information Versus #Videos, #Audio or

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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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
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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?

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

DreamState - Liminal Space - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying #improv #jazz #nowplaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now