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

'This is where my heart is': La'el Collins is healthy, excited to be back with Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45932565/nfl-dallas-cowboys-lael-collins-healthy-kaiir-elam-brian-schottenheimer

Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…

Figma's stock sinks 27% after last week's IPO pop
After more than tripling in its debut last week, Figma gave up some of its gains on Monday.

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 19 nodes and 172 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

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

Berlin setzt bei der #Gewässerüberwachung übrigens seit 2022 auf ein vollelektrisches Dienstschiff.
Der E-Katamaran „James Hobrecht“ ersetzt das alte Dieselmodell und fährt emissionsfrei durch die Stadt.
Ausgestattet mit neuester #Messtechnik, leistet er täglic…

Berlins neues Dienstschiff fährt ab sofort elektrisch - Berlin.de
Staatssekretärin Silke Karcher taufte den E-Katamaran heute auf den Namen „James Hobrecht“ – das Spezialschiff wird für Messfahrten und Wasserprobeentnahmen eingesetzt

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining #EU

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

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:

Let Life Continue – “Requiem for a Stranger” Revisited #inspiration #music https://muz4now.com/2022/let-l…

Let Life Continue - "Requiem for a Stranger" Revisited
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. "
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

#Manchester's filthy air.
A long way to go.
"All in all, the measures will get Greater Manchester’s air to 40.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide in one cubic metre of air.
"The UK legal limit is officially 40, but results under 40.4 are rounded down, making TfGM’s plan compliant.
"But the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit is just 10."
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Clean air zone signs are down, but our pollution 'is like smoking 150 cigarettes a year'. Now what?
The charging clean air zone was cancelled after a spectacular U-turn in 2022 - and led to more arguments and thousands of stickers being slapped on signs. Now there's a new plan, Ethan Davies examines what it involves - and why it's only a start

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
Rhea Ghosal, Melody Han, Benjamin Keller, Scarlett Kerr, Justin Liu, SuHo Oh, Ryan Tang, Chloe Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04555 …

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
A well-known conjecture of Simon (1994) states that any pure $d$-dimensional shellable complex on $n$ vertices can be extended to $Δ_{n-1}^{(d)}$, the $d$-skeleton of the $(n-1)$-dimensional simplex, by attaching one facet at a time while maintaining shellability. The notion of $k$-decomposability for simplicial complexes, which generalizes shellability, was introduced by Provan and Billera (1980). Coleman, Dochtermann, Geist, and Oh (2022) showed that any pure $d$-dimensional $0$-decomposab…

Ich habe schon einige Male von meiner privaten Zeiterfassung mit #toggl berichtet, die ich im Sommer 2022 gestartet habe:
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/113922373939929179
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/113916715274582646
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/111680223297101142
Das war nützlich - aber vor Kurzem habe ich die toggl Apps alle gelöscht und Ende. Alle Ziele wurden erreicht und das kann weg.
Eine Einsicht: E-Mail lässt sich in keine Kategorie pressen. Per Mail kommt der blödeste Mist und in Mail schreibe ich manchmal meine besten Gedanken. 1/2

Ukrainische Armee: Schwerste nächtliche Angriffe Russlands seit Kriegsbeginn
Russlands nächtliche Angriffe auf die Ukraine waren nach Angaben der ukrainischen Armee die schwerste derartige Attacke seit Kriegsbeginn im Februar 2022. In der Nacht zum Freitag sei die "größte Zahl" an Drohnen eingesetzt worden, "die der Feind jemals in einem einzelnen Angriff verwendet" habe, sagte Armeesprecher Juri Ignat am Freitag im ukrainisc…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump: Keine Fortschritte bei Telefonat mit Putin ++
US-Präsident Trump hat in einem Telefonat mit Kreml-Chef Putin nach eigenen Angaben keine Fortschritte mit Blick auf den Ukraine-Krieg erzielt. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj fordert die EU zur Stärkung der eigenen Rüstungsindustrie auf.

Cowboys' former 2nd-round draft pick arrested, charged after crash kills motorcyclist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/07/former-cowboys-cb-k…

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing to reinstate
🆘 a full exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from its medical benefits package,
according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
The exclusion, which
restricted coverage of abortion services for veterans,
had been in place since the agency's medical benefits package was first established in 1999
until it was removed by 2022
during the administration of former Presid…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

Explanation of the seasonal variation of cosmic multiple muon events observed with the NOvA Near Detector
The NOvA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04434 https://…

Explanation of the seasonal variation of cosmic multiple muon events observed with the NOvA Near Detector
The flux of cosmic ray muons at the Earth's surface exhibits seasonal variations due to changes in the temperature of the atmosphere affecting the production and decay of mesons in the upper atmosphere. Using data collected by the NOvA Near Detector during 2018--2022, we studied the seasonal pattern in the multiple-muon event rate. The data confirm an anticorrelation between the multiple-muon event rate and effective atmospheric temperature, consistent across all the years of data. Previous ana…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team #musician #musicianresources https://muz4now…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Bo Li, Chenyue Liu, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00650

Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Evacuation is critical for disaster safety, yet agencies lack timely, accurate, and transparent tools for evacuation prediction. This study introduces Evac-Cast, an interpretable machine learning framework that predicts tract-level evacuation rates using over 20 features derived from four dimensions: hazard intensity, community vulnerability, evacuation readiness, and built environment. Using an XGBoost model trained on multi-source, large-scale datasets for two hurricanes (Ian 2022, Milton 202…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Chengyao Zhang, Ankang Gao, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00112 https://arxiv…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Recent theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed that flapping compliant membrane wings can significantly enhance propulsive performance (e.g. Tzezana and Breuer, 2019, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 871-888) and energy harvesting efficiency (e.g. Mathai et al., 2022, J. Fluid Mech., 942, R4) compared to rigid foils. Here, we numerically investigate the effects of the stretching coefficient (or aeroelastic number), $K_S$, the flapping frequency, $St_c$, and the pitching amplitude, $θ_0$,…

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

Puppy Guru - 4 more life tips from my dog
#BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2022/puppy-guru-4-more-life-tips-from-my-dog/

Puppy Guru - 4 more life tips from my dog
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Large language Models have only been widely available since 2022 and yet in less than three years have had a significant impact on approaches to education and educational technology. Here we review the domains in which they have been used, and discuss a variety of use cases, their successes and failures. We then progress to discussing how this is changing the dynamic for learners and educators, consider the main design challenges facing LLMs if they are to become truly helpful and effective as …

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Kiesewetter für Ausweisung russischer Diplomaten
Der CDU-Sicherheitspolitiker Roderich Kiesewetter hat angesichts der Bedrohung durch russische Cyberangriffen und Sabotageaktionen mehr Konsequenzen gefordert. "Wir sollten noch vorhandene Agenten und Diplomaten ausweisen", sagte der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Geheimdienst-Kontrollgremiums des Bundestags dem Handelsblatt.
Schon im April 2022 hatte die Bundesregierung 40 …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine-Verbündete beraten über weitere Hilfen ++
Auf Einladung Deutschlands und Großbritanniens kommt am Mittwoch die sogenannte Ramstein-Gruppe zusammen, um über weitere Hilfen für die Ukraine zu beraten - die USA nehmen nicht teil. Moskau fordert die Anerkennung der eroberten Gebiete.

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

Iran nearly succeeded in orchestrating assassination of Mike Pompeo in Europe in 2022, book reveals (Emily Davies/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/trump-iran-pompeo-assassination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p1#a250628p1

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement https://therecord.media/bidencash-cybercrime-darknet-market-takedown-us-netherlands

Ducks Ltd. ft. Illuminati Hotties - "Head On" (2022)
This is a really nice, jangly cover 🤩
#music #IndieRock #Pixies

Guru Puppy - I'm Learning From My Dog
#BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2022/guru-puppy-im-learning-from-my-dog/

2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Schweinfurt im Wildpark an den Eichen und haben dort geholfen, ein Blitzturnier zu veranstalten. Neben Flyern, Luftballons etc. war auch hier natürlich zur Freude aller Kinder wieder Chessy am Start. Und auch unsere "Morphs" waren mit dabei, sodass man gegen anonyme Gegner Schach spielen konnte.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
S. Z. Sayed Hassen, A. Aboudonia, J. Lygeros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01996

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
This work investigates the benefits of implementing a systematic approach to social isolation policies during epidemics. We develop a mixed integer data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme based on an SIHRD model which is identified from available data. The case of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (also known as COVID-19) in Mauritius is used as a reference point with data obtained during the period December 2021 to May 2022. The isolation scheme is designed with the control decision…

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,…

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Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
https://muz4now.co…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 52 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Russia jails man for 16 years over pro-Ukraine cyberattacks on critical infrastructure https://therecord.media/russia-jails-man-over-pro-ukraine-cyberattacks

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10865

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we also leverage both the refreshed passage and document collections that were released last year leading to a nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection and nearly four times increase in the document collection size. U…

Complete Classification of Directed Quantum Graphs on M2
Nina Kiefer, Bj\"orn Sch\"afer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15534 https://

Complete Classification of Directed Quantum Graphs on M2
In 2022, Gromada and Matsuda classified undirected quantum graphs on the matrix algebra $M_2$. Later, Wasilweski provided a solid theory of directed quantum graphs which was formerly only established for undirected quantum graphs. Using this framework we extend the results of Matsuda and Gromada, and present a complete classification of directed quantum graphs on $M_2$. Most prominently, we observe that there is a far bigger range of directed quantum graphs than of undirected quantum graphs on …

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
Kate Genevieve, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Elliott, Martin Dominik, Emily Finer, Kathryn Denning, Chelsea Haramia, George Profitiliotis, Carol A. Oliver, Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, Daliah Bibas, Hannah Little, William H. Edmondson, Pauli Laine
https://

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobiology agenda, guided by the existing interdisciplinary framework of the SETI PostDetection Hub (est. 2022) at the University of St Andrews (Elliot et al. 2023), which emphasizes comprehensive preparedness across science, society, governance, and communication. NASA can significantly enhance readine…