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„Die Zahl der Filialen von Banken und Sparkassen in Deutschland geht weiter zurück.
Nach Angaben der Bundesbank gab es im vergangenen Jahr knapp 17.900 Niederlassungen; das waren 8,4 Prozent weniger als 2023.
(..)
Laut den Angaben der Bundesbank schlossen vor allem die Großbanken viele ihrer Standorte.“
Das ist ein Problem für alle, die kein Online-Banking benutzen.
#RechtAufAnalog

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
S. Dalessi, P. Veres, C. M. Hui, S. Bala, S. Lesage, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein, E. Burns, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, C. Fletcher, O. J. Roberts, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, W. H. Cleveland, M. M. Giles, M. Godwin, R. Hamburg, B. A. Hristov, D. Kocevski, B. Mailyan, C. Malacaria, O. Mukherjee, L. Scotton, A. von Kienlin, J. Wood

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
On March 7th, 2023 the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed the second highest fluence gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB~230307A. With a duration beyond 100~s, GRB~230307A contains a multitude of rapidly-varying peaks, and was so bright it caused instrumental effects in the GBM detectors. The high fluence of this burst, (6.02 $\pm$ 0.02)$\times$10$^{-3}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, prompted rapid follow-up across the electro magnetic spectrum including the discovery of an associated kilonova. GRB~2…

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
#dreams #inspiration
https://muz4now.com/2023/exploring-eac

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Lite förenklat tror jag att jag kan påstå att matavfall bidrar till Sveriges energimix med 0,2% 2023.
Total energitillförsel 2023: 507 TWh
- Varav biobränslen: 149,6 TWh
Total biogasanvändning: 4,1 TWh
- Varav matavfall 24%, dvs 1 TWh
Har jag missat något här? Eller räknat uppåt väggarna? #energipolitik

The error-correcting pair for several classes of NMDS linear codes
Dong He, Zhaohui Zhang, Qunying Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07380 https://

The error-correcting pair for several classes of NMDS linear codes
The error-correcting pair is a general algebraic decoding method for linear codes. The near maximal distance separable (NMDS) linear code is a subclass of linear codes and has applications in secret sharing scheme and communication systems due to the efficient performance, thus we focus on the error-correcting pair of NMDS linear codes. In 2023, He and Liao showed that for an NMDS linear code $\mathcal{C}$ with minimal distance $2\ell+1$ or $2\ell+2$, if $\mathcal{C}$ has an $\ell$-error-correc…

New report details global drought impacts #environment

New report details global drought impacts
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the world since 2023.

In the United States, people often get away with murder.
The clearance rate
— the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved
— was 58 percent in 2023,
the latest year for which F.B.I. data is available.
And that figure is inflated because it includes murders from previous years that police solved in 2023.

Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It
Most crimes go unsolved, emboldening criminals and potentially leading to more violence.

Heizungsgesetz - wie Populisten die Wärmewende behinderten
> Was die Studienautoren überrascht hat, waren weniger die typisch populistischen Diskurs-Strategien als vielmehr die Akteure selbst, sagt Haas: "Wie nah die Argumentationsweise der Unionsparteien an der der AfD war. Die AfD war sicher noch schärfer und polemischer, aber insgesamt lässt sich da in der Logik der Argumentation eine große Nähe feststellen."

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

I’ve been enjoying the beginner focused articles on bikes here…
➡️ #MastoBikes #biking

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"Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

Die restlichen Samen vom weißen #Mangold (der eigentlich gelber Mangold hätte sein sollen) aus dem Jahr 2023 sind noch gut gekeimt und liefern auch dieses Jahr wieder gute #Erträge.
Ich haeb wieder #Mangoldgemüse

Question Decomposition for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Paul J. L. Ammann, Jonas Golde, Alan Akbik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00355 https://

Question Decomposition for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Grounding large language models (LLMs) in verifiable external sources is a well-established strategy for generating reliable answers. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one such approach, particularly effective for tasks like question answering: it retrieves passages that are semantically related to the question and then conditions the model on this evidence. However, multi-hop questions, such as "Which company among NVIDIA, Apple, and Google made the biggest profit in 2023?," challenge RA…

"Jacqueline Rivault's two grandchildren, who were French citizens, were killed in October 2023 by 'two F16 missiles fired by the Israeli army.'"
French grandmother files 'genocide' complaint over Gaza killings
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2025/06/06/french-grandmother-files-genocide-complaint-over-gaza-killings_6742078_105.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

UN-Atombehörde: AKW Saporischschja vom Netz getrennt
Das von Russland besetzte ukrainische Atomkraftwerk Saporischschja hat der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) zufolge die externe Stromversorgung verloren. Die Anlage werde nun über Notstrom-Dieselgeneratoren versorgt, teilte die IAEA mit.
Es sei das neunte Mal während des Krieges und das erste Mal seit Ende 2023, dass die Anlage vom Netz getrennt worden sei. Der uk…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ AKW Saporischschja wieder extern versorgt ++
Die externe Stromversorgung des von Russland besetzten Atomkraftwerks Saporischschja funktioniert laut der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde wieder. US-Präsident Trump will offenbar mit der Ukraine bei der Luftverteidigung zusammenarbeiten.

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

What are you looking for?
"Seeking Joy"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/…

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cowboys Lose $16.4 Million Because of a Decision Made in 2023 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/16-4-million-salary-cap-hit/?adt_ei=[email]

Heute, jetzt gleich demnächst: Abschlussworkshop zum @… Projekt „Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies. Auf maschinellem Lernen basierende Texterkennung (PATT)“ in der Hochschulbibliothek der #ZHAW
Mit dabei: meine

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
Dipak Debnath, Hsiang-Kuang Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10267

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
The Galactic transient black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI~J1834-021 was detected for the first time by MAXI/GSC on February 05, 2023 and it was active for next $\sim 10$~months. A monotonic evolution of low-frequency QPOs from higher to lower frequencies is observed in the middle-phase of the outburst. We study this evolution of the QPO with the propagating oscillatory shock (POS) model, and it suggests the presence of a receding shock. The POS model fit also estimates the mass of the source to be…

The Density Profile of Dynamical Halos
Tristen Shields, Edgar M. Salazar, Eduardo Rozo, Aakanksha Adya, Calvin Osinga, Ze'ev Vladimir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00410

The Density Profile of Dynamical Halos
Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by García et al. [R. García et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting particles in a gravitationally bound structure, we characterize the mean and scatter of the orbiting profile of dynamical halos as a function of their orbiting mass. We demonstrate that the orbiting profile of individual halos at fixed mass depends on a single d…

In Memory Of Tom
Inspired by the life of a mentor and friend...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4no…

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

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Near-Optimal Nonconvex-Strongly-Convex Bilevel Optimization with Fully First-Order Oracles
In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $ε$-stationary point within ${\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-2})$ oracle calls. However, the HVP oracle may be inaccessible or expensive in practice. Kwon et al. (ICML 2023) addressed this issue by proposing a first-order method that can achieve the same goal at a slower rate of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-3})$. In this pap…

Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/hfpa-ousts-president-helen-hoehne/

HFPA President Helen Hoehne Ousted as Members Aim to Reverse Dissolution
Hoehne, who oversaw the organization through boycotts over diversity and its Eldridge acquisition, was also ejected from its board.

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
#toXiv_bot_toot

Doeltreffendheid en doelmatigheid, woorden die niet altijd goed worden gebruikt. In dat kader is de handleiding doeltreffendheid en doelmatigheidsonderzoek van de Algemene Rekenkamer een aanrader, weliswaar een specifieke Rekenkamer insteek maar een goede behandeling van genoemde begrippen.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15556 has been replaced.
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Outgroup Animosity Has Risen for Politicians, Journalists, and a Sample of Partisan Users on Twitter and Reddit
Using language models, we analyze a sample of 67 million tweets and 30 million Reddit comments referencing a set of 215 political entities from 2010-2023 from partisan users, journalists, and politicians. Our analysis indicates outgroup animosity has increased consistently in our sample, with newer cohorts of users expressing higher levels of animosity than previous ones. Moreover, a small fraction of users are responsible for a disproportionate share of this negative content. We observe system…

On Jan 15, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 2 Episode 14 “𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆“ 10 Feb 1992 starring #PamelaBach #VincentKlyn #DavidHasselhoff

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Save Me
#ArethaFranklin
https://titandavis2.bandcamp.com/track/titan-davis-vs-aretha-franklin-save-me-exclusive-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mvKpoeI6sq6osDtSb9xcF

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
Mohit Bhardwaj, Arvind Balasubramanian, Yasha Kaushal, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23861

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
The persistent radio source (PRS) associated with FRB 20121102A, the first precisely localized repeating fast radio burst (FRB), provides key constraints on both its local environment and the nature of the underlying FRB engine. We present a seven-year (2016-2023) temporal analysis of the PRS, combining new uGMRT observations with archival data across L-band frequencies. We find no statistically significant long-term trend in its L-band flux density. The observed variability is consistent with …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
bar italia:
🎵 my little tony (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2023)
#baritalia
https://baritalia.bandcamp.com/track/my-little-tony
https://open.spotify.com/track/08PgEBgGK65DZpxudS1J73