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A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 534 nodes and 12812 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google

How AppLovin Scared Google
In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth from selling ads promoting mobile apps, a business worth double-digit billions of dollars for Google, had slowed, a former employee said. When staffers discussed what was ...

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
Matt Brigida, Kathleen Maceyka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03344 https://

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
In this analysis we determine factors driving the cross-sectional variation in uninsured deposits during the interest rate raising cycle of 2022 to 2023. The goal of our analysis is to determine whether banks proactively managed deposit run risk prior to the hiking cycle which produced the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis. We find evidence that interest rate forward, futures, and swap use affected the change in a bank uninsured deposits over the period. Interest rate option use, however, has no eff…

Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Gabriela Ar\'anguiz-Dias, Grace Ra Kim, Lana Saadeddin, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02064

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
As industry reports claim agentic AI systems deliver double-digit productivity gains and multi-trillion dollar economic potential, the validity of these claims has become critical for investment decisions, regulatory policy, and responsible technology adoption. However, this paper demonstrates that current evaluation practices for agentic AI systems exhibit a systemic imbalance that calls into question prevailing industry productivity claims. Our systematic review of 84 papers (2023--2025) reve…

from my link log —
Surety: The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
saved 2023-10-05

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."

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

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Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Stefan Purkhart, Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Astrid M. Veronig, Miho Janvier, S\"am Krucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03825

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of impulsive solar flare emissions, yet their driving mechanism(s) remain unresolved. We study long-period (3.4 min) QPPs in the M3.7 flare on Feb 24, 2023, using SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter/STIX to pinpoint their source and driver. We analyzed UV and HXR emissions from four subregions covering the flare ribbons and footpoints of the erupting filament. We find the QPP characteristics varied significantly across these regions. The strongest UV …

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
won Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival
#PrivateEquity #Journalism #FreePress

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

Audience Optimization - 4 Ways to Increase Streaming Royalties
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Audience Optimization - 4 Ways to Increase Streaming Royalties
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Last Dinner Party:
🎵 Nothing Matters (6 Music Session, 7 Jul 2023)
#TheLastDinnerParty
https://lookingglassalice.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-matters-the-last-dinner-party-looking-glass-alice-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3p84R45PM75ngq8XRoe45o

Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/david-leavy-cnn…

David Leavy, CNN's COO, Will Return to Warner Bros. Discovery
David Leavy will leave CNN and return to duties at corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery, where he has long been a key aide to CEO David Zaslav

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01942 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Pairwise Rearrangement is Fixed-Parameter Tractable in the Single Cut-and-Join Model
Genome rearrangement is a common model for molecular evolution. In this paper, we consider the Pairwise Rearrangement problem, which takes as input two genomes and asks for the number of minimum-length sequences of permissible operations transforming the first genome into the second. In the Single Cut-and-Join model (Bergeron, Medvedev, & Stoye, J. Comput. Biol. 2010), Pairwise Rearrangement is $\#\textsf{P}$-complete (Bailey, et. al., COCOON 2023), which implies that exact sampling is intracta…

Abor & Tynna: *bescheren 🇩🇪 die drittbeste #ESC-Platzierung der letzten 10 Jahre und die sechstbeste der letzten 20 Jahre*
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"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

Pablo Reche – Programa(cion)
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15001 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Torsion pairs in categories of modules on ringed finite sites
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a small category. In this paper, we mainly study the category of modules $\mathfrak{M}\mbox{od-}\mathfrak{R}$ on ringed sites $(\mathbf{C},\mathfrak{R})$. We firstly reprove the Theorem A of the paper (M. Wu and F. Xu. Skew category algebras and modules on ringed finite sites. J. A. 631, 2023), then we characterize $\mathfrak{M}\mbox{od-}\mathfrak{R}$ in terms of the torsion modules on $Gr(\mathfrak{R})$, where $Gr(\mathfrak{R})$ is the linear Grothendieck construction of $…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

Amendments to the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act Bring Big Changes to Big Sky Country
https://fpf.org/blog/amendments-to-the-montana-consumer-data-privacy-act-bring-big-changes-to-big-sky-country/

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

Adams Building, Nottingham, September 2023
#photography #ukphotographer #nottingham #monochrome