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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,122,810 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Exploring hamstrings with Jurdan Mendiguchia, the world's most in-demand physio https://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2022/02/05/61fee15ae2704eb79e8b457d.html

Exploring hamstrings with Jurdan Mendiguchia, the world's most in-demand physio
Seeing a player reach down to hold a muscle has become almost as common a sight in football as goal celebrations. The culprit here is the hamstring, the nightmare of all footballer

I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before #Spotify started serving #ICE as “free content.”
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Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
Danny Segev, Gidi Steinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09180 https://…

Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
In this paper, we address open computational questions regarding the market share ranking problem, recently introduced by Derakhshan et al. (2022). Their modelling framework incorporates the extremely popular Multinomial Logit (MNL) choice model, along with a novel search-based consider-then-choose paradigm. In a nutshell, the authors devised a Pandora's-Box-type search model, where different customer segments sequentially screen through a ranked list of products, one position after the other, …

Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro
has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison
for plotting a military coup
and seeking to “annihilate” the South American country’s democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/se…

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
Shashank Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09622

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
The objective of this study is to understand the online Ask the Doctor services medical advice on internet platforms via AskDoc, a Reddit community that serves as a public AtD platform and study if platforms mirror existing hurdles and partiality in healthcare across various demographic groups. We downloaded data from January 2020 to May 2022 from AskDoc -- a subreddit, and created regular expressions to identify self-reported demographics (Gender, Race, and Age) from the posts, and performed s…

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

DreamState Suite Two - Liminal Space
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series
#Deming

from my link log —
Luhn credit card checksum using SWAR and SIMD.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/04/30/
saved 2022-04-30 https://

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
T\'imea Kov\'acs, D\'ora Gr\'eta Petr\'oczy, G\'abor P\'asztor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08914

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
As of 2022, the European Union has taken several steps regarding enlargement. We focus on the accession of countries with which the Union is actively negotiating membership. This is examined under two enlargement scenarios: first, the enlargement along the lines of the Western Balkan countries, and second, the accession of a trio (Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia) to the already enlarged Union. We determine the a priori power of the member states based on the Banzhaf and Shapley--Shubik indices. V…

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09628

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
The winter climate of the East/Japan Sea (EJS) is strongly affected by the Arctic Oscillation (AO), yet how AO polarity reshapes the memory, coupling patterns, and predictability of sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remains poorly quantified. Using 30 winters (1993--2022) of daily OISST and ERA5 fields, we combine multivariate Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA) with an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck (OU)-like integration of atmospheric principal components (PCs). The leading coupled mode explains 87…

Apparently #Spotify is #Fascist. Wow, big surprise from the app that’s allergic to paying artists. Always has been, comrade, and I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before they started servi…

Feedback That Clicks: Introductory Physics Students' Valued Features in AI Feedback Generated From Self-Crafted and Engineered Prompts
Amogh Sirnoorkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08516

Feedback That Clicks: Introductory Physics Students' Valued Features in AI Feedback Generated From Self-Crafted and Engineered Prompts
Since the advent of GPT-3.5 in 2022, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown tremendous potential in STEM education, particularly in providing real-time, customized feedback to students in large-enrollment courses. A crucial skill that mediates effective use of AI is the systematic structuring of natural language instructions to AI models, commonly referred to as prompt engineering. This study has three objectives: (i) to investigate the sophistication of student-generated prompts whe…

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

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Enumeration kernels for Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
Marin Bougeret, Guilherme C. M. Gomes, Vinicius F. dos Santos, Ignasi Sau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08475 https://

Enumeration kernels for Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
Enumerative kernelization is a recent and promising area sitting at the intersection of parameterized complexity and enumeration algorithms. Its study began with the paper of Creignou et al. [Theory Comput. Syst., 2017], and development in the area has started to accelerate with the work of Golovach et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 2022]. The latter introduced polynomial-delay enumeration kernels and applied them in the study of structural parameterizations of the \textsc{Matching Cut} problem an…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter
Denis Helic, Tiago Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05879

Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter
Millions of users visit Stack Overflow regularly to ask community for answers to their programming questions. However, like many other platforms, Stack Overflow consistently struggles with low user retention and declining levels of user contributions to the platform. With the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, these ongoing difficulties on Stack Overflow were further magnified, as many users moved toward ChatGPT for programming help. In this paper, we build upon recent research on this p…

Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden is stepping down, and Maureen Polo will succeed her; CFO Corey Shepardson has been named COO and will run business operations (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Maureen Polo Named CEO of Hello Sunshine, Sarah Harden Moves Into Advisory Role
Polo joined the Reese Witherspoon-founded company in 2022 as head of direct-to-consumer.

Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

Z archiwum: jak Jasiu próbował się z kołem przewieźć cugiem z Katowic w okolice Bełsznicy.
http://tek.org.pl/psota-ic.txt
Jak ktoś potrzebuje po warszawsku, to np. tu niżej jest relacja:

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
J. Alimena, J. Boyd, G. Cacciapaglia, A. Casais Vidal, X. Cid Vidal, S. Collaviti, A. De Oyanguren Campos, G. Dalla Valle Garcia, G. Elor, G. Ferretti, D. Gorbunov, E. Goudzovski, J. Hajer, J. Jerhot, B. Kishor Jashal, V. Kholoimov, J. Klaric, F. Kling, E. Kriukova, Y. Kyselov, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, A. Merli, M. Ovchinnykov, J. Pfaller, G. Perez, P. Reimitz, I. Sanderswood, L. Shchutska, E. Torro Pastor, Y. Tsai, A. Usachov, L. Vale S…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs@LHCb continues the successful series of the FIPs workshops, FIPs 2020 and FIPs 2022. The main focus of the workshop was to explore th…

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/

Grassroots – summertime is music festival time #festival #music https://muz4now.com/2022/grassroots-su

Grassroots - summertime is music festival time
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,117,360 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to give Ukraine the approximately $300 billion in Russian state assets frozen by Western countries after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now endorsed the idea, removing a long-standing obstacle.
But another one remains:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to retaliate by confiscating the remaining Western investment in Russia.

Western countries are no…

Putin is eyeing Western business assets. Here’s how to stop him.
When Fidel Castro tried the same thing in the 1990s, Congress answered with the Libertad Act.

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
Luciano Rota, Raffaele Argiento, Michela Cameletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05719 …

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
In this paper we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of obesity rates across Italian regions from 2010 to 2022, aiming to identify spatial and temporal trends and assess potential heterogeneities. We implement a Bayesian hierarchical Beta regression model to analyze regional obesity rates, integrating spatial and temporal random effects, alongside gender and various exogenous predictors. The model leverages the Stochastic Search Variable Selection technique to identify significant predicto…

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

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#GrandFatherTaughtMe

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

Generalizations of Ferber-Krivelevich and Gallai Theorems on parity of degrees in induced subgraphs
Jiangdong Ai, Qiwen Guo, Gregory Gutin, Yimin Hao, Anders Yeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01428

Generalizations of Ferber-Krivelevich and Gallai Theorems on parity of degrees in induced subgraphs
A long-standing and well-known conjecture (see e.g. Caro, Discrete Math, 1994) states that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ without isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph where all vertices have an odd degree and whose order is linear in $n$. Ferber and Krivelevich (Adv. Math., 2022) confirmed the conjecture. In this short paper, we generalize this result by considering $G$ with vertices labeled 0 or 1 and requiring that in an induced subgraph of $G$, the 0-labeled vertices are of even degree…

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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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ UN werfen Russland Folter an Zivilisten vor ++
UN-Experten beschuldigen Russland, in besetzten Gebieten ukrainische Zivilisten systematisch zu foltern. Mehrere russische Flughäfen haben wegen ukrainischer Drohnenangriffe in der Nacht den Betrieb eingeschränkt.

Q&A with Stanford researchers on their recent study finding that, since 2022, US employment in the most AI-exposed fields has fallen 13% for entry-level workers (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying

The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy

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

4 Ways to Get Discovered as a Musician #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/4-ways-to-get-discovered-as-a-musician

4 Ways to Get Discovered as a Musician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
Xia Huang, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00453

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
In this work, we summarize the linearization method to study the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles, and explain that the same approach can be used to handle the stability problem. As examples of application, combining with spherical harmonic decomposition and the Hardy inequalities, we revise two families of inequalities. We give firstly an affirmative answer in dimension four to Cazacu-Flynn-Lam's conjecture [JFA, 2022] for the sharp Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and improve the recent estim…

Near-Wall Scaling and Separation Prediction of a Rotation-Based Subgrid-Scale Stress Model
Jiawei Chen, Yifei Yu, Emran Hossen, Chaoqun Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20043 http…

Near-Wall Scaling and Separation Prediction of a Rotation-Based Subgrid-Scale Stress Model
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of a novel subgrid-scale stress model proposed in 2022, which utilizes the rotational part of the velocity gradient as the velocity scale for computing eddy viscosity. This study investigates the near-wall asymptotic behavior and separation prediction capability of this model for the first time. Two canonical flows--fully-developed turbulent channel flow and periodic hill flow--are selected for analysis. The eddy viscosity predicted by this model correla…

Eigentum unleistbar - Wer eine Wohnung will, zahlt zwölf Jahresgehälter #News #Nachrichten

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,108,510 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Bandura and Sopilka
#PeaceInUkraine #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/bandura-and-s

Bandura and Sopilka #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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#DogPodCasts

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

Global web of AI rules grows 30% in 3 years as cooperation stalls
US, Europe and China pursue their own aims, leaving rest of world behind

Observation of VER J2019 368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16408

Observation of VER J2019+368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
The Single-Mirror Small Size Telescope (SST-1M) is a small Cherenkov telescope designed to detect gamma rays with energies more than about 1 TeV. The optical design of the SST-1M follows the Davies-Cotton concept to ensure good off-axis performance. In 2022, two SST-1M telescope prototypes were installed in Ondrejov, Czech Republic, and stereoscopic observations of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been performed since then. VER J2019+368 is an unidentified very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray s…

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa: 'I'm not playing up to the standard that I've played in years past' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-qb-tua-tagovailoa-not-playing-up-to-standard

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
Sharon A. Ochieng, Konrad Patkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17619 https://arxiv…

Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
We construct a new noncovalent benchmark dataset 3BXB that combines halogen-bonded bimolecular complexes from the SH250 dataset [Kriz and Rezac, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24, 14794] with a third interacting partner, either H$_2$O or CH$_4$. The reference total and three-body interaction energies are computed at the CCSD(T) level. To shed light on the physical origins of binding and cooperativity in complexes of this kind, several symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT)-based energy deco…

Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy Diagnosis of the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Solar Eruption
Yuankun Kou, Xin Cheng, Sijie Yu, Yingjie Luo, Bin Chen, Mingde Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11998

Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy Diagnosis of the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Solar Eruption
In this Letter, taking advantage of microwave data from the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, we present the first microwave imaging spectroscopy diagnosis for the slow-rise precursor of a major coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2022 March 30. The EUV images reveal that the CME progenitor, appearing as a hot channel above the polarity inversion line, experiences a slow rise and heating before the eruption. The microwave emis…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

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

Love’s Shifting Nature #NowPlaying #improv #originalmusic #piano

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

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