2025-09-03 11:12:43
On the Analysis of Random Linear Streaming Codes in Stochastic Channels
Kai Huang, Wenjie Guan, Xiaoran Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Kechao Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01894 https://
On the Analysis of Random Linear Streaming Codes in Stochastic Channels
Kai Huang, Wenjie Guan, Xiaoran Wang, Jinbei Zhang, Kechao Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01894 https://
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Approximately 18% of SNAP recipients are over 60.
That’s over 7 million people.
A lot of those people have few options to generate more income.
Graphic from the USDA web page:
Also featuring a flagrant Hatch Act violation
http://www.ers.usda.gov/d…
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#DogPodCasts
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
OECD lists 1,300 AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (Naoki Watanabe/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
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#UnreadBookASong
ℹ️ Beitrag im Liveblog gelöscht oder nicht zuordenbar, es folgt die alte Version:
UN-Bericht: Folter in russisch besetzten Gebieten der Ukraine
Experten der UN haben den russischen Besatzern in der Ukraine die "systematische" Folter ukrainischer Zivilisten vorgeworfen. Seit dem Beginn des Angriffskriegs im Februar 2022 seien zivile Häftlinge in den von Russland besetzten Gebieten Opfer von "weitverbreiteter und systematischer…
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A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
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 …
Eagles' A.J. Brown feels a 'little sad' for Treylon Burks after Titans' 2022 draft-day trade https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-aj-brown-feels-a-little-sad-treylon-burks-titans-2022-draft-day-trade
Die Orks haben anscheinend wieder einen Helden erwischt: https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-8808.html
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2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
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#SingleLifeASongOrPoem
⓿ Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
#california
Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
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#EggcornFoodOrMeals
Arithmetic properties of partition functions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki
Hemjyoti Nath, Manjil P. Saikia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08801 https://arxiv…
Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
Danny Segev, Gidi Steinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09180 https://…
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://…
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
The (Short-Term) Effects of Large Language Models on Unemployment and Earnings
Danqing Chen, Carina Kane, Austin Kozlowski, Nadav Kunievsky, James A. Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15510
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#DaughtersASongOrPoem
Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!
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#OddEventsToJubileeAndHow
CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration
A. Lundgren, A. Beelen, G. Lagache, F. -X. Desert, A. Fasano, J. Macias-Perez, A. Monfardini, P. Ade, M. Aravena, E. Barria, A. Benoit, M. Bethermin, J. Bounmy, O. Bourrion, G. Bres, C. De Breuck, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, C. Dubois, C. A Duran, T. Fenouillet, J. Garcia, G. Garde, J. Goupy, C. Hoarau, W. Hu, J. -C. Lambert, F. Levy-Bertrand, J. Marpaud, R. Parra, G. Pisano, N. Ponthieu, L. Prieur, D. Quinatoa, S. Roni, S. Roudie…
Got my water/utility bill for the spring/summer yesterday. (we get billed 3 times a year as part of our general city utilities bill including water, sewer and garbage/recycling fees).
Figured it would be a big water year this year so I've been wanting to see this. And of course, I have data going back to 2019ish.
Today's bill only goes to August 1st, so it doesn't include when we started to fill the #pondpool!
This was already a dry year in the spring and we were doing lots of watering in the front yard for the new ground cover in the modified driveway and the 3 new fruit trees.
Verdict:
2024: Apr 12 - Aug 7: 122, 200L
2025 Apr 14 - Aug 1 (7 less days!): 136,600L
It will be interesting to see if the August pond filling will add a big chunk onto our summer/fall consumption or if that is offset by both the brief August water restrictions, and the departure of both kids this fall to consume other people's water. ;=)
If you want an indication of how much water people use vs. yards: look at our August 2022 bill, which captures when we were on our cross-Canada roadtrip for 30 days in July/August of the 100 day period.
#water #consumption #gardening #utility #PortAlberni
OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Johannes Niu, Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03599 https://
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#ChessOrCheckersASongOrPoem
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …