In 2023, presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands.
The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims.
Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,”
Tre…
(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.
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'`,…
Tödlicher Titanic-Tauchgang: Keine Vorschriften für solche Tauchboote
Auf dem Weg zur Titanic implodierte 2023 das Kohlefaser-Tauchboot Titan. Noch immer fehlen verpflichtende Vorgaben für Bau und Betrieb.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MidsummerDreaming
Midsummer Dreaming:
🎵 Sight-Reading (2023)
#MidsummerDreaming
The Simmons Memorial, Dane John Gardens, Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09) - Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave -
#Steady #Klimacrew
Bereits im Jahr 2023 erregten zwei Anwälte in New York wegen Missbrauchs von ChatGPT Aufsehen. Sie hatten den Chatbot für die Anfertigung von Dokumenten für das Gericht benutzt und es unterlassen, die Ausgaben auf Korrektheit zu prüfen.
Kann man daraus nun etwas lerne…
Financial Times:
ECB raises interest rates for first time since 2023
— The European Central Bank raised interest rates by a quarter point to 2.25 per cent on Thursday,
becoming the first central bank in the G7 to increase borrowing costs in response to Middle East energy crisis
https://www.memeor…
The Great Stour and Westgate Towers,
Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome
🌱 Wie werden landwirtschaftliche Betriebe zu Solawis?
Knapp 30 % der Solawis sind aus bestehenden Höfen entstanden. Meist geht das nicht von heute auf morgen. Viele Betriebe verkaufen ihre Produkte zuerst direkt im Hofladen oder arbeiten nach Bio-Standards. Danach entscheiden sie sich für die Umstellung auf #Solawi.
📖 Du fragst dich, ob Solawi auch für deinen Betrieb ein passender We…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Designed-Source Reductions and a Dual-Purpose Feasibility Band for Semantic Rate-Distortion
Joss Armstrong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11280
arXiv:2606.11280v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The joint rate-distortion framework of Stavrou and Kountouris (IEEE Transactions on Communications 2023) characterises dual-fidelity tradeoffs for semantic communication on stochastic semantic sources. Many task-oriented communication systems instead use designed sources, where the semantic object is a deterministic oracle allocation $\phi^(t)$ rather than a stochastic quantity given by nature. We isolate the subclass of designed sources under smooth concave utility with assumptions A1, A2 and Euclidean allocation codomain, and restrict the encoder class to deterministic common-category mappings. Within this subclass the SK exponential-tilting decoder and generalised Blahut--Arimoto iteration specialise to conditional-mean decoding and Lloyd--Max stationarity on $\phi^(t)$. When the second fidelity is a monotone single-letter distortion, the joint problem stays inside the SK admissible class; the common-category SK rate is lower-bounded by the max of the corresponding Shannon rate-distortion functions, with equality only when the common-category reconstruction is compatible and RDF-optimal. When the second fidelity is aggregate verification, the joint problem leaves the SK single-letter class and admits a constrained-design feasibility band $R_{\min}(\varepsilon^) \leq R \leq R_{\max}(\beta^)$ of width $\log_2(K_{\max}/K_{\min})$ bits in partition cardinality. The reduction and the band are scope statements on the SK apparatus, not modifications to it. A smart-grid economic-dispatch example with a non-technical-loss-detection contrast illustrates the band.
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The US Supreme Court late Tuesday gave Alabama a green light
to use an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map that a lower court said was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
The unsigned decision, from which the high court’s three liberal justices dissented,
enables Alabama’s Republican-dominated government to replace its current congressional map, which has two majority-Black districts,
with a map that the US Supreme Court struck down in 2023. T…
from my link log —
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C and Rust.
https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/
saved 2023-01-06
"Australian households and businesses installed more rooftop solar last month than in any other month on record"
Changes to the Cheaper Home Batteries Program may have "triggered a surge in battery demand with a meaningful flow-on effect to solar.”
https://www.
@… @…: Letztes Posting von @… ist von 2023. Der Account scheint nicht …
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
Tower of St. Mary Magdalene, Burgate, Canterbury | April 2023.
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #documentingplace
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