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Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

Bei @… lief gestern "Holding Liat" über eine israelische Familie nach dem 7. Oktober. Goßartiger Film.
Liat Beinin Atzili wurde entführt und nach acht Wochen freigelassen, Aviv Atzili ermordet. Liats Vater Yehuda Beinin will Frieden, ihr Sohn Rache.
Der Film bekam letztes Jahr den Berlinale-Dokfilmpreis. Bis Mai in der Mediathek.

The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Lil Yachty:
🎵 REACH THE SUNSHINE.
#LilYachty
https://electroponic.bandcamp.com/track/reach-the-sunshine-lil-yachty-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0t8YVhiyInlDW9cHtMGhJg

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Alle Jahre wieder.
#davos #winterferien #schnee

Aloe inflorescence, just starting to open. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2023. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #laarboretum #flower #aloe

Prune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@engadget/tech-news-3l37fooaz/-/a-8y293aXPQ5WJhSKN7ycBqA:a:3199686-/0
Except he did... in 2023. But it was never updated once after Space Karen was called out as it was adjusted …

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…

Olha. Não sabia desta.
https://eco.sapo.pt/2026/02/02/marinha-recebe-porta-drones-de-132-milhoes-no-ultimo-semestre/

Who Calls 1-800-GAMBLER? Around Big Sports Events, It’s Often Young Men. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/sports-gambling-addition-super-bowl.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…

The differences are stark. Cyber security strategies:
Biden 2023: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf
Trump 2026:

from my link log —
Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x
saved 2023-11-07

An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, "Freedom of Money", details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/cz-changpeng-zha…

Der @der-postillon.com hat mir eine Pause versüßt
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/03/antworten-sprachnachricht.html

2023 in #AI4LAM terms feels a very long time ago! It's not easy to find the videos from Fantastic Futures 2023 so for findability... https://…

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…

#AudioEye claims it can find more issues than other #overlay vendors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/au…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 But Not Tonight
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://djpepusnik.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-but-not-tonight-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mOAeFylUraa4kUB1B9QW3

#DDA "Seltene #Vögel in Deutschland 2023" ist erschienen und kann bestellt werden, "Seltene Vögel in Deutschland 2022" gratis als pdf.

Voyage rocambolesque ou bienvenu en Mongolie
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2023/02/voyage-rocambolesque-ou-bienvenu-en.html

Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday

"Amazon rainforest flipped to carbon source during 2023 extreme drought, study shows"
#AmazonRainforest #Environment

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Cisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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Looks fantastic. Thanks for writing it! And for publishing it as open access.

ISTA - "Gods In Heat" (2026)
New one from this Brooklyn-based, 7-piece psychedelic post-punk disco collective. I really enjoy their LP from 2023, but they keep dropping new singles on BC and they seem to improve with each release.
#music #alternative

Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-cb-stephon-gilmore-officially-retires

Raiders Receive Brutally Honest Message on Fernando Mendoza https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brutal-reality-check-fernando-mendoza/

Q: How does the filling level of Dutch gas storages compare to that of previous years?
A: Not good.

Colts give QB Anthony Richardson permission to seek trade: 2023 top-five pick faces uncertain future

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-anthony-richardson-trade-rumors/

PSA: Part of the ongoing #ThingUmbrella maintenance and migration to #Codeberg, I've written a script to batch delete 20600 tags from the Git repo[1], basically any release tags older than 2023-01-01. There're still ~4600 tags remaining, covering all releases since that date. This in…

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Clark:
🎵 Town Crank (6 Music Session, 15 May 2023)
#Clark
https://clark.bandcamp.com/track/town-crank-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w77Bte17HghSNsC22mFXU

The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

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from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03

The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-cb-stephon-gilmore-officially-retires

Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…

Donald Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight
and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it,
according to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week.

The Justice Department shared those findings, detailed in a January 2023 briefing document written by then-special counsel Jack Smith’s team,
with lawmakers as they conduct a …

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Gerade passend zur #Ölkrise und #spritpreis Debatten: 1973 fingen manche Tankstellen an Fahrräder zu verkaufen..
Bild aus diesem schönen Bericht:

Chiefs to release tackle Jawaan Taylor, per reports, ending three-year tenure after monster contract

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-jawaan-taylor-released/

Sources: WaPo lost $100M in 2025, after losing ~$100M in 2024 and $77M in 2023; its publisher told staff that expenses surpassed revenue between 2022 and 2025 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…

Into The Couloir...
(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite …

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago,
according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.
The details of who accessed a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office, ‌including the allegation that a foreign hacker was involved, are being reported here for the first …

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/

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Painful to live in fear, isn't it?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Margaret Glaspy:
🎵 Act Natural (6 Music Session, 19 Sep 2023)
#MargaretGlaspy
https://margaretglaspy.bandcamp.com/track/act-natural
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IvHM9pA4qT5Uiu6bqRwGS

from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09

ICE : Patriot Protocol | Video Game Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv25r-RLyFE

https://theoblivionchapel.bandcamp.com/track/1933

#TheOblivionChapel #1933

Line
File
Pledge
Allegiance

Prime
Rile
Feed
A grievance

Blind
Stares
Cross
Hairs

Twist
Right
Drag
Them out of sight
Day and night

Poin…

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
Seit Sep. 2023 immer falsch geraten. 🤨
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Dβeβzβeβmβbβeβrβ β2β0β2β5β über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den

Seahawks exercise fifth-year player options for Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7135543/2026/03/20/smith-njigba-witherspoon-seahawks-fifth-year-player-option-nfl/

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let's see...

RT: https://ethernick.com/notes/305a274f-6a1d-46f0-bc08-cca8baf56163

'Fly, Eagle Fly': Jonathan Jones flies himself to Philadelphia to sign contract https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129866/2026/03/18/eagles-cb-jonathan-jones-pilot/

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nothing you can do about it. she has a Meowlti Pass

Falcons hiring Kevin Stefanski as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978950/2026/01/17/kevin-stefanski-falcons-head-coach/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxFEi22XKQ

What's remarkable about this agreement is that it's plainly understood (DW is a mainstream state-owned German broadcaster) to be urgent primarily because of the energy dependency on the *USA*, a country that *cannot be relied upon*.

#Ren…

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Looks like you've got awesome customers! I'm a bit envious but also happy about it.

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Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t

I hope this bullshit finally disinhibits people in Europe - particularly those not on the left - from condemning the MAGA regime, and retaliating economically instead of pathetically trying to appease it.

Go to hell Trump, nobody wants the 💩 you have to offer.

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Pathetic.

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Even old x86 Apple laptops run Linux poorly, at least without a lot of tinkering.
I have a MBP 14,3 with miserable WiFi and no sound on Ubuntu 24.04.
Don't buy Apple hardware.

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Evil, despicable, depraved ghouls.

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This looks like a good development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa0zx4T1CmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWokGcF1sA4

The fascination of the boot (not just in America)

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Fantastic! Really happy for you!
I want to leave LinkedIn too.

Leaving Facebook and Twitter was easy as I never relied on them for income. I just left in disgust.

I freelance, and unfortunately a majority of work opportunities comes from people finding me on LinkedIn.

I'm on Xing as well, but in the Nordic…

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Finland is going through a long bad period economically with self-imposed austerity and (surprise) EU-beating unemployment that keeps rising.
There *is* awareness that the …

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Indeed. And it's not just European politicians sane-washing Trump, also European media which is perhaps even more damaging.

Sadly, as we try to salvage it we need to work with the premise that NATO might already be doomed. So unfortunately European countries really need to invest more on defense and even mor…