2025-10-26 03:23:03
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 -…
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 -…
Didn't know Botch recorded one new song they put out in 2022, their first in 20 years at the time, and now here I am, in 2026, listening to it. And it's ridiculous, and it's ripping my face off
https://botch.bandcamp.com/track/one-twenty-two
Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…
Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
Cowboys’ offensive line needs lots of attention https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-offensive-line-needs-lots-of-attention
from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05
Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $33B, vs. $32.42B est., and AWS operating income up 9.5% YoY to $11.4B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MickeyMouseTipsOrThoughts
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 12 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
Unzulässige Preiserhöhung: Amazons Berufung abgewiesen
Die Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime vom Herbst 2022 bleibt ungültig. Der Konzern hat auch beim OLG Düsseldorf verloren.
https://www.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,158,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
🐺 Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
#denmark
CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN in 2022 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-launches-all-access-streaming-service-w…
Cowboys OG Tyler Booker named to PFWA All-Rookie Team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/20/cowboys-tyler-booker-pfwa-2025-all-rookie-team/88271155007/
Mastodon is showing me a "who to follow" widget and I checked out two profiles and they are people who haven't posted in a year or more. (One since 2022!)
Maybe this feature needs a tweak.
#mastodon
It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299321
Amended my 2022 post as a result:
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2w0pvg4wko
Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…
Last time in Sweden was midsommmar 2022, in Umeå. And it actually did not get dark. But also I wasn’t really sleepy during those days
This time, it's almost winter solstice and I'm way more north in Luleå. Sunrise at 9:37, sundown at 13:11 😲 We will see how that goes
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön
Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Bill Esterson, Chair of HoC Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, calls Ofgem’s proposal to reduce record levels of consumer energy debt that have more than doubled since 2022 “completely inadequate”, saying the cost crisis demands “out of the box thinking” from Government and Ofgem to ensure that “parts of the sector that are making healthy profits become part of the solution to dealing with the high cost of energy”.
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 31. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Forest". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
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
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MusicEggCorns
#HashTagGames
From #HannahFry @fryrsquared@instagram.com
🥰Your feel good research of the day:
Gentle as a mother's touch: C-tactile touch promotes autonomic regulation in preterm infants by I Püschel, J Reichert, Y Friedrich, J Bergander, K Weidner, I Croy (2022).
#Ctactile
Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs across its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 from 2022 to 2023; the company employed 1.55M people globally in June (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
My fediversary is also November 2022, not sure what day. But these three years have been excellent- here's to many more. And it's all you cool folks who make it so great to be here, so thank you all for that. 💥
#fediverse #fediversary
PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Poppy Ajudha:
🎵 Holiday From Reality (6 Music Session, 20 Apr 2022)
#PoppyAjudha
https://open.spotify.com/track/37sOPR3sWcMhVlcRVC79N2
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Ausgerechnet Ronnie Mocker, der Chef von Swissmint, versteigerte 2022 auf Ricardo unter dem Pseudonym «Ronnie_75» selbst eine Münze, die er für 800 Franken kaufte und wenige Tage später für 2500 Franken weiterverkaufte.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/goldvreneli-skandal-bund-verbietet-kauf-von-sondermuenzen-fuer-angestellte-427757241966