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Diarycast - Year In Review (2023)
The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

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

"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 […]

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…

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Finding Bliss"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/finding-bliss

Finding Bliss #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Antenna: US SVOD subscriptions grew 11% from March 2024 to March 2025; the average churn rate for premium SVOD services has hovered around 5% since January 2023 (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/antenna-s…

Streaming Enters New Phase Of “More Stable Growth” As Ad Tiers Gain Traction & Subscriber Churn Reduces, Study Says
A new report from data firm Antenna explains why streaming is entering a more stable period of growth after years of volatility

Für die Hörer der #Podcast Ep. 3
https://tino-eberl.de/podcast/episode-3-neuigkeiten-aus-der-bastelstube/
hier nur mal so zum Verständnis eine aktuelle…

Sozen jetzt wieder mit Krokodilstränen auf Social Media unterwegs. Alles ganz schlimm mit dem #Familiennachzug.
Als ob diese rechte Scheißpartei vor dieser Scheißkoalition irgendwie anders gewesen wäre.
»Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil abschieben« meinte euer Cum-Ex Verbrecher 2023.
Geht endlich unter, niemand braucht euren Scheißladen.

#Tesla hat in #Schweden im Tarifkonflikt mit der IF Metall immer noch mit Solidaritätblockaden zu kämpfen. Tesla wird seit Oktober 2023 bestreikt. Die zuständige Aufsichtsbehörde lehnt es ab, den Anschluss von Ladesäulen anzuordnen, da das Streikrecht durch die Verfassung geschützt ist.

Tesla får nobben – får inga nya laddstolpar
Elbilsjätten har begärt att Elmarknadsinspektionen (Ei) tar elnätsbolaget i örat, men får nobben av myndigheten.

🇺🇦 #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

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

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.

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

Energetic ($< 2$ MeV) Ion Environment of the Magnetosphere as measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase
Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Bijoy Dalal, Santosh Vadawale, Aveek Sarkar, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Jacob Sebastian, Anil Bhardwaj, P. Janardhan, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Piyush Sharma, Aakash Gupta, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Bhas Bapat, Pranav R Adhyaru, Arpit R. Patel, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Abhishek Kumar, Tinkal Ladiya, Sushil Kumar, …

Energetic ($< 2$ MeV) Ion Environment of the Magnetosphere as measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase
During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) was operated whenever the orbit was above 52000 km during 11-19 September 2023. This phase of operation provided measurements of energetic ions (with energies 0.1-2 MeV) in the magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and interplanetary medium. Three interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) hit the magnetosphere during thi…

Aaron Rodgers is 'pretty sure' 2025 season will be last https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6448463/2025/06/24/aaron-rodgers-pittsburgh-steelers-retirement/

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Jiahui Wu, Tiecheng Sun, Fucai Luo, Haiyan Wang, Weizhe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20101

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption (MKHE), proposed by Lopez-Alt et al. (STOC 2012), allows for performing arithmetic computations directly on ciphertexts encrypted under distinct keys. Subsequent works by Chen and Dai et al. (CCS 2019) and Kim and Song et al. (CCS 2023) extended this concept by proposing multi-key BFV/CKKS variants, referred to as the CDKS scheme. These variants incorporate asymptotically optimal techniques to facilitate secure computation across multiple data providers. In this…

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
https://ift.tt/truigRx
Pirino on Suzuki, 'Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese…
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NIH shells out $10M to research health effects of 2023 train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/nih-shells-out-10-million-to-research-health-effects-of-2023-train-disaster-in-east-palestine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p76#a250619p76

In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it? 
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Oleksandr Yakovlev, Oleksiy Dudnik, Anna Wawrzaszek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19986

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Interplanetary (IP) shock waves are greatly interesting, as they represent significant phenomena in near-Earth space and are direct drivers of geomagnetic and radiation storms. Moreover, various data and parameters are being explored for the identification and characterization of these waves. The spatial dimensions of shock waves vary significantly with the conditions and parameters of the propagating medium. For example, the radii of curvature of the shock wave fronts can vary by several hundr…

Fact Check: 2023 Video Could NOT Show A Celebration Of Release Of Israeli Soldiers Detained In 2024 Detention Center Rape Case -- Video Shows An Unrelated Party: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/fact-check-video-could-not.html

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

"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

Maar een kwart 😃 , prima score
#politiek

Kwart kiezers is vertrouwen kwijt in alle politieke partijen: 'Neem ze niet meer serieus'
Een kwart van de kiezers is het vertrouwen in alle politieke partijen kwijt. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het RTL Nieuwspanel. Het gevoel leeft zeer sterk bij kiezers die bij de laatste Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in 2023 nog op Nieuw Sociaal Contract stemden (32 procent), maar ook bij mensen die toen voor de BBB (28 procent) of PVV (26 procent) kozen.

Seeking Joy
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/seeking-joy-n

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Testing the Lense-Thirring Precession Origin of the QPO in Swift J1727.8$-$1613
Ruican Ma, Chris Done, Aya Kubota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18857 https://…

Testing the Lense-Thirring Precession Origin of the QPO in Swift J1727.8$-$1613
We present a comprehensive spectral and timing analysis of the newly discovered black hole transient Swift J1727.8$-$1613, based on broadband (2$-$150 keV) observations from $Insight$-HXMT during its 2023 outburst. We use the flexible, energy-conserving SSsed model to model both the outer disc and inner, complex Comptonisation, using the expected disc emissivity to constrain the inner disc radius, $r_{cor}$. This decreases from 45 $R_{\rm g}$ to 9 $R_{\rm g}$ duing the transition from the hard …

Berend Botje https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/03/29/berend-botje/

Der gesamte contentindustrielle Journalismus ist eine gigantische Kopiermaschine für industriell erzeugte Dummheit geworden, und über dem breiten Tor, das in die Idiocracy und das nächste finstere Mittelalter führt, stehen als flammendes Menetekel die Worte Breaking News
#Selbstzitat | Quelle:

from my link log —
The joys of UNIX keyboards.
https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
saved 2023-08-04 https://do…

The Joys of UNIX Keyboards

Huh.. .??
Een Heineken flesje in een @… aflevering?
Waar zijn die Duitsers mee bezig? 😅
Tatort: Schutzmaßnahmen (2023) - #ARD

New tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-artwork-to-deter-ai-companies.html

This new tool lets artists 'poison' their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works
If an artist doesn't want their pieces being used to train AI image generators, a new tool called Nightshade would let them "poison" their artwork.

Cada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?

On Growth of Sobolev norms for cubic Schr\"odinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$
Yilin Song, Ruixiao Zhang, Jiqiang Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17731

On Growth of Sobolev norms for cubic Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$
In this article, we study the growth of higher-order Sobolev norms for solutions to the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$, \begin{align}\label{PNLS} \begin{cases}\tag{PNLS} i\partial_tu-Hu=|u|^{2}u,&(t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^d,\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x), \end{cases} \end{align} where $H=-Δ+|x|^2$. Motivated by Planchon-Tzvetkov-Visciglia [Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 39 (2023), 1405-1436], we first establish the bilinear St…

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling…

Hey, Jörg Schoppmeyer opened his talk at the #SolarEclipse Conference in Leuven on imaging annular eclipses without filters with one of my Australian pictures from 1999 (upper right): see https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/aus99/story.html for how they originated. Schoppmeyer's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtQrHdl5Og of the 2023 ASE actually found scientific use: https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_2.pdf#page=3 (once again confirming the larger solar diameter https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114681336115327260 had determined by an entirely different technique). 6/n

🇺🇦 #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

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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."

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Aloni Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19881 https://

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Are there any conditions under which a generative model's outputs are guaranteed not to infringe the copyrights of its training data? This is the question of "provable copyright protection" first posed by Vyas, Kakade, and Barak (ICML 2023). They define near access-freeness (NAF) and propose it as sufficient for protection. This paper revisits the question and establishes new foundations for provable copyright protection -- foundations that are firmer both technically and legally. First, we sho…

2023 wurden in Deutschland erstmals über 10 Millionen Quadratmeter #Gründächer neu angelegt.
Das ist ein Rekordwert laut #BuGG-Marktreport. Der Markt für #Gebäudebegrünung

BuGG-Marktreport Archiv - BuGG e.V.

Could Cowboys trade former 2nd-round pick before rookie deal done? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/15/cowboys-trade-luke-schoonmaker-consideration/84204653007/

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, a killer new find-- Melbourne, Australia's PHANTASM. Some really ripping hardcore punk here highlighted by the raw, furious vocals of Bernadette Fitzgibbon. Stumbled across this 4 song 7" EP 'Conflict Reality' that Phantasm put out in 2023 via Hardcore Victim, and I've really been digging it this week.

Ergodicity of the hard-core PCA with a random walk method
J\'er\^ome Casse, Ir\`ene Marcovici, Maxence Poutrel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18632 https:/…

Ergodicity of the hard-core PCA with a random walk method
The hard-core probabilistic cellular automaton has attracted a renewed interest in the last few years, thanks to its connection with the study of a combinatorial game on percolation configurations. We provide an alternative proof for the ergodicity of this PCA for a neighbourhood of size $2$ and $3$, using the notion of decorrelated islands introduced by Casse in 2023, together with some new ideas. This shortens the previous proofs and provides a more intuitive and unified approach.

Abkommen: USA dürfen Militärbasen in Dänemark errichten
Die USA können künftig in Dänemark Militärstützpunkte errichten, dort Soldaten stationieren und militärisches Material aufbewahren. Das dänische Parlament genehmigte ein entsprechendes Abkommen, wie die dänische Nachrichtenagentur Ritzau berichtete.
Die Vereinbarung wurde bereits im Dezember 2023 unterschrieben, also bevor Donald Trump zum zweiten Mal zum US-Präsidenten…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine erhält Leichname von Gefallenen ++
Die Ukraine hat die sterblichen Überreste von mehr als 1.200 getöteten Soldaten erhalten. Russland meldet einen Vorstoß im Westen der ukrainischen Region Donezk.

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Recursive Semantic Anchoring in ISO 639:2023: A Structural Extension to ISO/TC 37 Frameworks
Bugra Kilictas, Faruk Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06870 h…

Recursive Semantic Anchoring in ISO 639:2023: A Structural Extension to ISO/TC 37 Frameworks
ISO 639:2023 unifies the ISO language-code family and introduces contextual metadata, but it lacks a machine-native mechanism for handling dialectal drift and creole mixtures. We propose a formalisation of recursive semantic anchoring, attaching to every language entity $χ$ a family of fixed-point operators $ϕ_{n,m}$ that model bounded semantic drift via the relation $ϕ_{n,m}(χ) = χ\oplus Δ(χ)$, where $Δ(χ)$ is a drift vector in a latent semantic manifold. The base anchor $ϕ_{0,0}$ re…

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review
Samiha Shimmi, Hamed Okhravi, Mona Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10280 https:…

AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review
Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods (e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching) to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of software vulnerability detection (SVD) research from 2018 to 2023, offering a comprehensive taxonomy of techniques, feature representations, and embedding methods. Our analysis reveals that 91% of studies use AI-based methods, with graph-based models being th…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Cl\'ement Dallard, Martin Milani\v{c}, Andrea Munaro, Shizhou Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12424

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Motivated by a question of Galby, Munaro, and Yang (SoCG 2023) asking whether every graph class of bounded layered tree-independence number admits clique-based separators of sublinear weight, we investigate relations between layered tree-independence number, weight of clique-based separators, clique cover degeneracy and independence degeneracy. In particular, we provide a number of results bounding these parameters on geometric intersection graphs. For example, we show that the layered tree-ind…

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Quantum-assisted variational Monte Carlo
Solving the ground state of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have opened new avenues for addressing this challenge. Inspired by the quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo (QeMCMC) algorithm [Nature, 619, 282-287 (2023)], which was originally designed for sampling the Boltzmann distribution of classical spin models using quantum computers, we introduce a quantum-assisted variational Monte Carlo (QA-VMC)…

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…

Inverted Classroom in der Einf\"uhrungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Ulrich von Zadow, Natalie Kiesler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10057 https://…

Inverted Classroom in der Einführungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Traditionally, the introductory programming course for computer science students at Nuremberg Tech had been implemented as a combination of lectures and exercise sessions. Due to high failure rates in the winter semester 2023/24, an experimental teaching concept based on the inverted classroom was implemented for one cohort in the winter semester 2024/25. Students had to prepare themselves through literature work and activating teaching and learning methods. The course was accompanied by a seri…

Scale-by-scale energy transfers in bubbly flows
Hridey Narula, Vikash Pandey, Dhrubaditya Mitra, Prasad Perlekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07693 https://

Scale-by-scale energy transfers in bubbly flows
Variable density buoyancy-driven bubbly flows allow for multiple definitions of scale-dependent (or filtered) energy. A priori, it is not obvious which of these provide the most physically apt scale-by-scale budget. In the present study, we compare two such definitions, based on (a) filtered momentum and filtered velocity (Pandey et al., 2020), and (b) Favre filtered energy (Aluie 2013, Pandey et al., 2023). We also derive a Kármán-Howarth-Monin (KHM) relation using the momentum-velocity corr…

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

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.

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
Mark M. Bailey, Mark I. Heiligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14836

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
How can we detect when global events fundamentally reshape public discourse? This study introduces a topological framework for identifying structural change in media narratives using persistent homology. Drawing on international news articles surrounding major events - including the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Feb 2022), the murder of George Floyd (May 2020), the U.S. Capitol insurrection (Jan 2021), and the Hamas-led invasion of Israel (Oct 2023) - we construct daily co-occurrence graphs of n…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pascal Demoulin, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18115 …

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Filaments/prominences are cold plasma (~ 10000 K) embedded in the solar corona, two orders of magnitude hotter. Filament plasma is structured by the magnetic field in thin elongated threads. Counter-streaming flows have been observed. The aim of this paper is to characterize these flows. For that, we use high spatial resolution observations of spectral data obtained with THEMIS in H-alpha and with IRIS in Mg II k lines on 29 September 2023. We best detect counter-streaming flows in both the blu…

Friedensaktivist Hamza Howidy, aus #Gaza nach Deutschland geflohen, soll abgeschoben werden. Es gibt eine Petition:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/onlin

Hamza Howidy muss bleiben! - Online petition
[English below] Der Friedensaktivist Hamza Howidy sah sich im August 2023 gezwungen, aus dem Gazastreifen über Ägypten und Griechenland nach Deutschland zu fliehen. In Gaza war es ihm als erklärtem Gegner der Hamas nicht möglich, einer Arbeit nachzugehen, da Arbeitsstellen vorrangig an Anhänger der Hamas vergeben wurden. Doch darüber hinaus wurde Hamza von der Hamas, die international als Terrororganisation eingestuft ist, schwer misshandelt und gefoltert. Unter diesen lebensbedrohlichen …

Our Home
- #PianoImprov #NowPlaying -
https://muz4now.com/2023/our-home-pian

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A Visit to Reading Hydro by TTK Energy Group (2023) - An interesting visit: the River Thames Scheme should build in more hydropower! - https://www.earth.org.uk/Reading-Hydro-TTK-visit.html

A Visit to Reading Hydro by TTK Energy Group (2023)
An interesting visit: the River Thames Scheme should build in more hydropower!

from my link log —
Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02129
saved 2025-06-06 https://dotat.at/…

Implementing Dependent Types in pi-forall
These lecture notes describe the design of a minimal dependently-typed language called "pi-forall" and walk through the implementation of its type checker. They are based on lectures given at the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School during July 2023.

OceanGate? More like Heaven's Gate
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/11/titan-sub-disaster-netflix-documentary

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
Andrew K. Hughes, Francesco Carotenuto, Thomas D. Russell, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian, Joe S. Bright, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Mark A. Gurwell, Jasvinderjit K. Khaulsay, Anastasia Kirby, Serena Jones, Elodie Lescure, Michael McCollough, Richard M. Plotkin, Ramprasad Rao, Saeqa D. Vrtilek, David R. A. Williams-Baldwin, Callan M. Wo…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
This work presents comprehensive multi-frequency radio monitoring of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613, which underwent its first recorded outburst after its discovery in August 2023. Through a considerable community effort, we have coalesced the data from multiple, distinct observing programs; the light curves include ${\sim} 10$ months and 197 epochs of monitoring from 7 radio facilities with observing frequencies ranging from (approximately) 0.3$-$230GHz. The primary …

Extreme values of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field
Zhonghua Li, Yutong Song, Qiyu Yang, Shengbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12342

Extreme values of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field
In this paper, we establish a lower bound for the maximum of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field on the critical line. Employing a double version convolution formula and combing special GCD sums, our result generalizes the work of Bondarenko et al. and Fonga in 2023. We also set a lower bound by the resonance method when the real part is near the critical line, both of the above results refine part of Yang's work in 2022.

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

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.

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
https://ift.tt/sjpAvGD
Call for Chapter Submissions: New Perspectives in Africana Studies Call for Chapter…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Netflix acquires the Japanese media rights to carry the 2026 World Baseball Classic, marking the first time it will stream a live event in Japan (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-baseball-classic-netflix-japan-3ca47c79a174e31…

Netflix wins Japanese media rights for 2026 World Baseball Classic
Netflix has secured the Japanese media rights for next year's World Baseball Classic, marking its first live event it will stream in Japan. The platform will broadcast all 47 games of the tournament. Team Japan is the defending champion, having won in 2023. Previously, a consortium including Amazon Prime Video held these rights. The sixth edition of the tournament will feature 20 teams competing in four first-round pools in Tokyo, San Juan, Houston, and Miami. It starts on March 5, with the fin…

Juneteenth - what you and I need to know https://muz4now.com/2023/juneteenth-what-you-and-i-need-to-know/

Juneteenth - what you and I need to know
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…

Mehr als zwei Drittel der im Jahr 2024 errichteten Wohngebäude heizen mit Wärmepumpen
In immer mehr neuen Wohngebäuden in Deutschland werden Wärmepumpen zum Heizen genutzt. Mehr als zwei Drittel (69,4 %) der knapp 76 100 im Jahr 2024 fertiggestellten Wohngebäude nutzen Wärmepumpen zur primären, also überwiegend für das Heizen eingesetzten Energie. Gegenüber 2023 stieg der Anteil um rund 5 Prozentpunkte, gegenüber 2014 (31,8 %) hat er sich mehr als verdoppelt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt. Wärmepumpen kommen vor allem in Ein- und Zweifamilienhä…

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
We study suffix-based jailbreaks$\unicode{x2013}$a powerful family of attacks against large language models (LLMs) that optimize adversarial suffixes to circumvent safety alignment. Focusing on the widely used foundational GCG attack (Zou et al., 2023), we observe that suffixes vary in efficacy: some markedly more universal$\unicode{x2013}$generalizing to many unseen harmful instructions$\unicode{x2013}$than others. We first show that GCG's effectiveness is driven by a shallow, critical mechani…

Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney to Pay Comcast an Additional $439 Million for Hulu Stake as Streaming Saga Comes to an End
The Bob Iger-run entertainment giant agreed to buy the 33 percent stake in Hulu in 2023; after an extended appraisal process, the deal is finally set to close.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
Jack Dalton, Nic Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11359 https://

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
In a research seminar in $2006$, M. Filaseta, O. Trifonov, and G. Yu showed for each integer $n\geq3$ there is no distinct covering with all moduli in the interval $[n, 6n]$. In $2022$, this interval was subsequently improved to $[n, 8n]$ by the first author and O. Trifonov. The first author then improved this bound to $[n, 9n]$ in $2023$. Building off their method, we show that for each integer $n\geq 3$, there does not exist a distinct covering system with all moduli in the interval $[n, 10n]…

Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk

UK-based Skyral raises $20M Series A to expand modelling and simulation tech globally
British modelling and simulation startup Skyral has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by NOIA Capital in partnership with Accrete Capital, as it looks to expand the global reach of its AI-enabled digital twin technology across sectors including defence, national security, healthcare, and infrastructure. Founded in June 2023 and headquartered in the UK, Skyral is developing a next-generation platform that combines digital twin modelling with artificial intelligence to simulate comple…

from my link log —
Vectorized interpreters: mass rapid transit for programming languages.
http://venge.net/graydon/talks/VectorizedInterpretersTalk-2023-05-12.pdf
saved 2025-06-05

Taylor Swift to guest on boyfriend Travis Kelce's 'New Heights' podcast for her first interview since 2023

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tay…

Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney to Pay Comcast an Additional $439 Million for Hulu Stake as Streaming Saga Comes to an End
The Bob Iger-run entertainment giant agreed to buy the 33 percent stake in Hulu in 2023; after an extended appraisal process, the deal is finally set to close.

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
We study suffix-based jailbreaks$\unicode{x2013}$a powerful family of attacks against large language models (LLMs) that optimize adversarial suffixes to circumvent safety alignment. Focusing on the widely used foundational GCG attack (Zou et al., 2023), we observe that suffixes vary in efficacy: some markedly more universal$\unicode{x2013}$generalizing to many unseen harmful instructions$\unicode{x2013}$than others. We first show that GCG's effectiveness is driven by a shallow, critical mechani…

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.

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

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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."

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked vehicle and hitting a woman in November 2023 shows FSD's limits; the NHTSA is probing it (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-full-self-driving-crash/…

Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-rebecca-lawrence-weekend-i…

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