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Optimizing Sparse SYK
Matthew Ding, Robbie King, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09037 https://arxiv.org…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a representative example of such a system; it is particularly interesting not only due to the existence of efficient quantum algorithms preparing approximations to the ground state such as Hastings--O'Donnell (STOC 2022), but also known no-go results for many classical ansatzes in preparin…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Organdy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
Tristan Pitre, Eric Poisson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08722 https://

Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
The tidal deformation of a neutron star in a binary inspiral driven by the emission of gravitational waves affects the orbital dynamics and produces a measurable modulation of the waves. Late in the inspiral, a regime of dynamical tides takes over from a prior regime of static tides. A recent analysis by Yu et al. [M.N.R.A.S. 519, 4325 (2022)] reveals that nonlinear aspects of the tidal interaction are important during the regime of dynamical tides. Their theoretical framework is grounded in Ne…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,025,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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It's very amusing to read this piece by @… , "Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism", examine the section "Harvard's defenses", and see how they seem so strong in normal times and are failing right now—as a bellwether of our times.

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Petrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Way back in 2022, as the world tried to readjust back to "normal" following COVID - I helped to co-organise a bootcamp with sponsorhop from the @… IASC, @… and a generous dollop of help from @… and @… colleagues.
We gathered 10 senior scientist mentors and 22 students in an old torpedo research station (now used by Roskilde University) for 10 days. It was an extremely intense period but the 4th paper produced by this talented group has just come out.
I consider facilitating #EarlyCareerScientists to work on important science problems an extremely rewarding part of my job, and I'm looking forward to the next one already as part of our PISCO project.
In the mean time, go and read this extremely cool work, collecting together a huge number of radiosonde observations going back to the 1950s over the Arctic Ocean and using them to assess how well CMIP6 models represent lower atmosphere.
#CMIP6 #ClimateModels #Arctic #ArcticClimate #SeaIce
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041412

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

29.08.2022
https://www.heise.de/news/Kommentar-Das-Videoident-Verfahren-ist-unsicher-und-ueberfluessig-7238140.html
Die Gematik heute so:
08.08.2025

Kommentar: Das Videoident-Verfahren ist unsicher – und überflüssig
Die Sicherheit des Videoident-Dienstes wird immer mehr angezweifelt, gleichzeitig stellt sich die Frage, ob der E-Perso eine gute Alternative bietet.

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

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.

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 …

Russia’s largest redeployment of troops since 2022 sets the stage for a decisive battle in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/russias-largest-redeployment-of-troops.html

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Alberto Castagnaro, Umberto Salviati, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola, Simeone Pizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05093

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new vulnerabilities. This paper exposes a critical security gap at the data loading stage, where malicious actors can stealthily corrupt RAG pipelines by exploiting document ingestion. We propose a t…

Leech (2022) by Hiron Ennes is a post-post-apoc novel told from the POV of a hive-mind parasite that's eliminated any human who has medical knowledge, except for the humans it inhabits. This is rationalized as a survival tactic.
The story begins with a mystery: the parasite has no memory of the death of its host who was doctor to a tyrant in the bleak north, so it sends another of itself to investigate. It discovers the dead host has a different parasite. A dog eats that. Some peop…

Preetz holt im #Fahrradklimatest #FKT24 nach einem Rückschritt in 2022 wieder auf und gehört nun zu den Aufholerstädten in Schleswig-Holstein.
Esther Wenderhold ist die Mobilitätsmanagerin in Preetz und stellt die Leistungen der Stadt vor.

NDR Info: Preetz macht Radfahrenden das Leben leichter - hier anschauen
Mit ihrem Mobilitätskonzept ist die Stadt im Fahrradklimatest auf Platz drei in Schleswig-Holstein gelandet.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Veeti Ahvonen, Maurice Funk, Damian Heiman, Antti Kuusisto, Carsten Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01067 https://

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Transformers are the basis of modern large language models, but relatively little is known about their precise expressive power on graphs. We study the expressive power of graph transformers (GTs) by Dwivedi and Bresson (2020) and GPS-networks by Rampásek et al. (2022), both under soft-attention and average hard-attention. Our study covers two scenarios: the theoretical setting with real numbers and the more practical case with floats. With reals, we show that in restriction to vertex properti…

Put the Q In Jazz #Jazz #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2022/put-the-q-in-jazz-nowplaying/…

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,024,210 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Linearly involved Generalized Moreau Enhanced Model with Non-quadratic Smooth Convex Data Fidelity Functions
Wataru Yata, Keita Kume, Isao Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03258

Linearly involved Generalized Moreau Enhanced Model with Non-quadratic Smooth Convex Data Fidelity Functions
In this paper, we introduce an overall convex model incorporating a nonconvex regularizer. The proposed model is designed by extending the least squares term in the constrained LiGME model [Yata Yamagishi Yamada 2022] to fairly general smooth convex functions for flexible utilization of non-quadratic data fidelity functions. Under an overall convexity condition for the proposed model, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of a minimizer of the proposed model and an inner-loop free …

Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

California mystery: Why does a small rural county vote like SF?
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

Hill not among Fins' captains following apology https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46128469/tyreek-hill-not-dolphins-captains-offseason-apology

KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event
Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrew Gould, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Youn Kil Jung, Cheongho Han, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Fumio Abe, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Akihiko Fukui, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishi…

KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event
We present the analysis of a microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-0086 of which the overall light curve is not described by a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) model, which suggests the existence of an extra lens or an extra source. We found that the event is best explained by the binary-lens binary-source (2L2S) model, but the 2L2S model is only favored over the triple-lens single-source (3L1S) model by $Δχ^{2} \simeq 9$. Although the event has noticeable anomalies around the peak of the light cur…

Gestern demonstrierten rund 60 Fahrradfahrer:nnen in #Osnabrück für bessere Radwege. Eine schöne Spazierfahrt die bei 18 Grad etwas kälter als erwartet fand. Da wir als Gruppe als ein Fahrzeug gelten, können wir Kreuzungen und Überwege passieren, sobald die ersten Räder drüber sind. Auch wenn dass dann z.B. wieder Rot wird. Das fühlt sich seltsam an, und macht Laune. Endlich mal Vorfahrt für …

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

Bandura and Sopilka #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Integral $ab$ $initio$/DFT and experimental TDPAC approach enlightening the $aftereffects$ phenomenon: probing electronic properties in $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$:$^{111}$In($\rightarrow$ $^{111}$Cd) at the atomic scale
G. N. Darriba, R. Vianden, A. P. Ayala, M. Renter\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03460

Integral $ab$ $initio$/DFT and experimental TDPAC approach enlightening the $aftereffects$ phenomenon: probing electronic properties in $α$-Al$_2$O$_3$:$^{111}$In($\rightarrow$ $^{111}$Cd) at the atomic scale
By means of an integral experimental and $ab$ $initio$/DFT approach we contribute here to enlighten and quantify the origin of dynamic hyperfine interactions (HFIs) assigned to the electron-capture (EC) decay aftereffects (ECAE) phenomenon observed in time-differential perturbed $γ$-$γ$ angular correlation (TDPAC) experiments in oxides doped with ($^{111}$In (EC)$\rightarrow$)$^{111}$Cd as probe-atom. In previous works [Darriba et al., Phys. Rev. B 105, 195201 (2022)] we proposed an $ab$ $ini…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,023,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-hackers-breach-iranian-tv-urging-iranians-to-rise-up-in-protest-1750304429134
“The visuals displayed were of women tearing off their hijab and cutting their hair in defiance,…

Israeli hackers breach Iranian TV, urging Iranians to rise up in protest
During a live broadcast, footage from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, women cutting their hair in defiance, flashed across screens in Iran state TV (IRIB)

A Feminist Account of Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness
Marie Mirsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Laila Wegner (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Jonas Strube (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Carmen Leicht-Scholten (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17944

A Feminist Account of Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness
Intersectionality has profoundly influenced research and political action by revealing how interconnected systems of privilege and oppression influence lived experiences, yet its integration into algorithmic fairness research remains limited. Existing approaches often rely on single-axis or formal subgroup frameworks that risk oversimplifying social realities and neglecting structural inequalities. We propose Substantive Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness, extending Green's (2022) notion of su…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk Over Town (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#KatyJPearson
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

The good news from Alabama.
#Humanity #HumanRights #Juneteenth ht…

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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Good idea, perhaps the Commission could put this vision into practice for #EV roaming, so that the #AFIR provisions do not remain a dead letter?
From: @…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off. 💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.” 8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way: → 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls → 2007: roaming caps → 2017: the end of roaming charges → 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing: 🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU 💰 Protection from unexpected charges 🆘 Better access to emergency services Fair for opera…

Bears, GM Ryan Poles agree to contract extension through 2029: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6488952/2025/07/11/bears-ryan-poles-contract-extension/

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17451

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
The Single-Mirror Small Size Cherenkov Telescope (SST-1M) was developed by a consortium of institutes in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The SST-1M design is based on the Davies-Cotton concept, featuring a 4-meter mirror and an innovative SiPM-based camera. It is most sensitive to gamma rays in the TeV and multi-TeV energy bands. Since 2022, two SST-1M prototypes have been commissioned at the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic, where their performance in both mono and stere…

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366874/spacex-bitcoin-holdings-exceed-1-billion

@… it's not even on the browser'side. Prompt injection has been a security issue since 2022 and still remain unsolved 😅

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958
https://ift.tt/eyChpmA
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Hubble's Multi-Year Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
David Berardo, Julien de Wit, Michael Gillon, Ward S. Howard, Vincent Bourrier, Matthew W. Cotton, Florian Quatresooz, L\'eonie Hoerner, Emeline Bolmont, Artem Burdanov, Adam J. Burgasser, Brice-Olivier Demory, David Enhrenreich, Susan M. Lederer, Benjamin V. Rackham, Sara Seager, Amaury Triaud

Hubble's Multi-Year Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
Ly-$α$ observations provide a powerful probe of stellar activity and atmospheric escape in exoplanetary systems. We present here an analysis of 104 HST/STIS orbits monitoring the TRAPPIST-1 system between 2017 and 2022, covering 3--5 transits for each of its seven planets. We rule out transit depths $\gtrsim20\%$, which translates into an upper limit on the escape rate of $1064~EO_H$/Gyr for planet b ($1~EO_H$ is the Earth-ocean-equivalent hydrogen content), in agreement with recent claims tha…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
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

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Thea Musgrave, Johan Dalene, Nicholas Daniel, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Nil Venditti:
🎵 In Memorium 2022
#TheaMusgrave #JohanDalene #NicholasDaniel #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #NilVenditti
#Spotify

Bears extend Ryan Poles: Three things Chicago must do in 2025 to validate new deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-extend-ryan-poles-three-…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Bye". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Good Morning #Canada
In 2022, this town was voted by CBC readers and viewers as the "Best Small Town in B.C.". Sure, it's got skiing, golf, scenery, and friendly people but it's also a destination for your next #BigStuffInSmallTowns road trip. Kimberley's downtown was designed to resemble a Bavarian tourist village, so it features an almost 7 metre tall cuckoo clock where Happy Hans, a Bavarian-style mountaineer, announces the time.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Yodel
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kimberley-best-small-town-bc-winner-1.6434796

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Larry Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, David R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09192

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) have orbital periods of less than 20 years and therefore undergo more frequent sublimation compared to other comet populations. The JFCs therefore represent the ideal dynamical population for investigating the dust production rates at high-cadence. We analyzed observations by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) of 74 JFCs that reached perihelion in 2022 and 2023. The work contained in this study builds upon our previous work (Gillan et al. 2024…

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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#Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland