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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,081,330 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

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.

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.

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

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24508

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
The high prevalence of students not achieving the basic competencies in Latin America is concerning. Even more so given the region's deep structural inequalities and the larger post-pandemic regional learning losses. Within this scenario, this paper contributes to the identification of the determinants of bottom and low performers (below level 2) using recent advancements on explainable machine learning methods. In particular, relying on PISA 2022 data for 10 countries and using the Shapley Add…

Angekommen an einem unserer Wohlfühlorte: Schlosshotel Tangermünde an der Elbe. Im Jahr 2022 entdeckt und seitdem trotz knapp 600 km Entfernung jedes Jahr wieder besucht. Jetzt fünf Tage hier genießen.

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 2022 warnte Russland vor der Senkung der "nuklearen Schwelle" durch die #Stationierung modernisierter US-#Atomwaffen #B61 auf NATO-Stützpunkten in Europ…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Poppy Ajudha:
🎵 Holiday From Reality (6 Music Session, 20 Apr 2022)
#PoppyAjudha
https://open.spotify.com/track/37sOPR3sWcMhVlcRVC79N2

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24830

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
The learning crisis in the Latin American region (i.e., higher rates of students not reaching basic competencies at secondary level) is worrying, particularly post-pandemic given the stronger role of inequality behind achievement. Within this scenario, the concept of student academic resilience (SAR), students who despite coming from disadvantaged backgrounds reach good performance levels, and an analysis of its determinants, are policy relevant. In this paper, using advancements on explainable…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,077,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

UNCHARTED DATA: Interactive Tooltip Tables
How to include tables in your {ggiraph} tooltips.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#NonsenseASongOrPoem

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

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

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

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.

Lightweight and Data-Efficient MultivariateTime Series Forecasting using Residual-Stacked Gaussian (RS-GLinear) Architecture
Abukar Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03788 https://…

Lightweight and Data-Efficient MultivariateTime Series Forecasting using Residual-Stacked Gaussian (RS-GLinear) Architecture
Following the success of Transformer architectures in language modeling, particularly their ability to capture long-range dependencies, researchers have explored how these architectures can be adapted for time-series forecasting. Transformer-based models have been proposed to handle both short- and long-term dependencies when predicting future values from historical data. However, studies such as those by Zeng et al. (2022) and Rizvi et al. (2025) have reported mixed results in long-term foreca…

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

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.

The corruption of our the once-vaunted non-political integrity of our military takes another step forward (or I guess a better word would be downward):
"Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-navy-…

Navy reverses demotion of former White House doctor Ronny Jackson
Rep. Ronny Jackson has announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral. This overturns a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician. The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan saying he had reinstated Jackson to the retired rank of a one-star admiral following a “review of all applicable reports and references.” The Navy confirme…

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…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#WeatherStormASongOrPoem

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

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

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

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

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