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Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

The information flow among Green Bonds exchange traded funds
Wenderson Gomes Barbosa, Kerolly Kedma Felix do Nascimento, Fabio Sandro dos Santos, Tiago A. E. Ferreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19285

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,157,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05

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

A profile of Ivan Urgant, a popular Russian late-night TV host who became a pariah after his suspension in February 2022 for opposing the invasion of Ukraine (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/wo…

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

I don't know if this is true for all #EpsteinFiles the #DOJ just released but at least for the PDF linked in the quoted Bluesky post:
1. Open PDF in MS Word
2. Select All (CTRL A)
3. Set text color to Automatic
4. Read on
#redacted #technology #incompetence #unprofessional

Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/international/uk…

Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya
Attention à ne pas sous-estimer la menace et la force de l’armée russe. L’ancien colonel Michel Goya met en garde : depuis le semi-ratage ukrainien en 2022, les troupes de Poutine se sont transformées.

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

On Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html

On Website Technicals (2022-08)
Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL.

"die neue außenpolitische Positionierung der #USA sei eine "zweite Zeitenwende". Die erste Zeitenwende hatte der damalige Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz 2022 nach dem Überfall #Russland|s auf die Ukraine ausgerufen und eine massive Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr angekündigt. " sagt

Deutsche Politiker besorgt wegen US-Sicherheitsstrategie
Mehrere deutsche Politiker haben besorgt auf die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie reagiert. Sie werten sie als deutliches Zeichen einer Abkehr von Europa. Der CDU-Politiker Röttgen spricht von einer "zweiten Zeitenwende".

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#MashupChocolateAndFilms

Closing paths to cycles in symmetric graphs
Martin Milani\v{c}, {\DJ}or{\dj}e Mitrovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05404 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05…

Closing paths to cycles in symmetric graphs
It was shown by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milanič, and Servatius in 2022 that every induced $2$-edge path in a vertex-transitive graph closes to an induced cycle. Similar results were obtained for 3-edge paths closing to cycles in edge-transitive graphs, where the cycle can be assumed to be induced if the path is induced. Motivated by these results, we consider the following problem: For a given class of graphs, determine all integers $\ell\geq 0$ such that for every graph in the class, e…

📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

Provability Models
Mojtaba Mojtahedi, Borja Sierra Miranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06696…

Provability Models
In this paper, we study a new Kripke-style semantics for classical modal logic, named as provability models. We study provability models for the propositional modal logics K, K4, S4 GL, GLP and the interpretability logic ILM. Provability models combine features of Kripke models with the assignment of logics to individual worlds. Originally introduced in [Mojtahedi, 2022], these models allowed the first author to establish arithmetical completeness for intuitionistic provability logic. Interesti…

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Bears elevate 2022 Raiders draft pick amid D'Andre Swift's injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-elevate-2022-raiders-draft-pick-amid-dandre-swifts-injury/05a03f6f6…

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Beyond the Oracle Property: Adaptive LASSO in Cointegrating Regressions
Karsten Reichold, Ulrike Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07204 https://arxiv.o…

Beyond the Oracle Property: Adaptive LASSO in Cointegrating Regressions
This paper establishes new asymptotic results for the adaptive LASSO estimator in cointegrating regression models. We study model selection probabilities, estimator consistency, and limiting distributions under both standard and moving-parameter asymptotics. We also derive uniform convergence rates and the fastest local-to-zero rates that can still be detected by the estimator, complementing and extending the results of Lee, Shi, and Gao (2022, Journal of Econometrics, 229, 322--349). Our main …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,151,070 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin

Sequoia Capital transitions to new leadership
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will become Sequoia's new stewards.

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 23 nodes and 1065 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Climate change: across time and frequencies
Luis Aguiar-Conraria, Vasco J. Gabriel, Luis F. Martins, Anthoulla Phella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21334 https://

Climate change: across time and frequencies
We use continuous wavelet tools to characterize the dynamics of climate change across time and frequencies. This approach allows us to capture the changing patterns in the relationship between global mean temperature anomalies and climate forcings. Using historical data from 1850 to 2022, we find that greenhouse gases, and CO$_2$ in particular, play a significant role in driving the very low frequency trending behaviour in temperatures, even after controlling for the effects of natural forcings…

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#NoseyNeighborASongOrPoem

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,179,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
Maximilian Peter B\"ohme, Willow Martin, Hannah Bellenbaum, Magaret Berrens, Jan Vorberger, Sebastian Schwalbe, Zhandos Moldabekov, Thomas Gawne, Sebastien Hamel, Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Abhiraj Sharma, Frank Graziani, Tilo D\"oppner, Siegfried Glenzer, Tobias Dornheim, David Bishel

Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic for matter under extreme conditions, as it captures the intricate many-body physics of the probed sample. Recent advances, such as the model-free temperature diagnostic of Dornheim et al. [Nat.Commun. 13, 7911 (2022)], have demonstrated how much information can be extracted directly within the imaginary-time formalism. However, since the imaginary-time formalism is a concept often difficult to grasp, we provide here a systemat…

Bayesian Re-Analysis of the Phylogenetic Topology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Case Sequences
Michael B. Weissman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01484 https://arxiv.org…

Bayesian Re-Analysis of the Phylogenetic Topology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Case Sequences
A much-cited 2022 paper by Pekar et al. claimed that Bayesian analysis of the molecular phylogeny of early SARS-CoV-2 cases indicated that it was more likely that two successful introductions to humans had occurred than that just one had. Here I show that after correcting a fundamental error in Bayesian reasoning the results in that paper give larger likelihood for a single introduction than for two.

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