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Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Juneteenth – what you and I need to know #inspiration #juneteenth https://muz4now.com/2023/juneteenth-wh

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

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
Yang Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07823

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
In the online sorting problem, we have an array $A$ of $n$ cells, and receive a stream of $n$ items $x_1,\dots,x_n\in [0,1]$. When an item arrives, we need to immediately and irrevocably place it into an empty cell. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between adjacent items, which is called the \emph{cost} of the algorithm. It has been shown by Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist (SODA 2023) that when the stream $x_1,\dots,x_n$ is generated adversarially, the optimal cos…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

Bummed, I just noticed the Space Invaders: World Defense app doesn't really work anymore-- it doesn't connect to the servers or high scores, it errors out when you try and play outside.
Space Invaders: World Defense came out in 2023 and was really cool, it had an AR aspect, you could go outside and see the ships coming down in the real world. I messed around with it some back then and took some photos, but I can't find them. Should've messed around with it more then. I…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Patrick Wolf:
🎵 Nowhere Game (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2023)
#PatrickWolf
https://open.spotify.com/track/3yT6Ho87fAxrvsbys6TGUx

Preventing Another Tessa: Modular Safety Middleware For Health-Adjacent AI Assistants
Pavan Reddy, Nithin Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07022 https://ar…

Preventing Another Tessa: Modular Safety Middleware For Health-Adjacent AI Assistants
In 2023, the National Eating Disorders Association's (NEDA) chatbot Tessa was suspended after providing harmful weight-loss advice to vulnerable users-an avoidable failure that underscores the risks of unsafe AI in healthcare contexts. This paper examines Tessa as a case study in absent safety engineering and demonstrates how a lightweight, modular safeguard could have prevented the incident. We propose a hybrid safety middleware that combines deterministic lexical gates with an in-line large l…

diese woche endlich mal zum lesen gekommen:
"Über die Bedeutung des Spaßfaktors in Forschungsprojekten – Ein Erfahrungsbericht" von Jutta Bertram
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2023-0060
– ein erfreulich offener rückblick auf ein forschungssemester, das nicht so gelaufen war wie gep…

"But AI tools will be just like calculators..."

from my link log —
Servo revival 2023-2024.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
saved 2025-01-07 htt…

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The starvation of Gaza, announced by the Israeli government since October 2023.
Front page of Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl today.

On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza
A radical campaign that began in 2023 is entering its final phase.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

Interesting UK poll.
Source: https://www.thetimes.com/article/3c1e38fb-6863-46d8-b33b-9802aa8136a6?shareToken=02bf3a59255940b2dd743726711a7024

Whistleblower Lukasz Krupski hat seinen Gerichtsprozess gegen #Tesla gewonnen. Tesla muss Schadensersatz zahlen. Krupski hatte Sicherheitsmängel aufgedeckt.
https://www.blueprint…

Lukasz Krupski wins retaliation case against Tesla — Blueprint for Free Speech
2023 Blueprint Europe Whistleblowing Prize winner Krupski says the ruling is “a victory for transparency and justice” as investigations into Tesla’s safety record continue

Some cool stuff coming here: https://athletechnews.com/apple-watchos-26-public-beta-fitness-upgrades/?utm_source=Athletech Media Group LLC&utm_campaign=929c7ecf86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_01_11_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-717047a094-604853391

Karstadt-Leerstand Thema auf dem Dach https://weddingweiser.de/karstadt-leerstand-thema-auf-dem-dach/

ES braucht auch gute Nachrichten aus der Justiz.
In der Bundesregierung dürfte manche feiern, dass sich Arbeit lohnt. Auch wenn andere bedauern werden, dass einfach nur Mannsein keinen Bonus geben sollte.
https://www.

Dresdnerin erstreitet gleichen Lohn für gleiche Arbeit: ein Grundsatzurteil und seine Folgen
Die Dresdnerin Susanne Dumas sorgte 2023 bundesweit für Aufsehen, als Sie das gleiche Gehalt ihres Kollegen einklagte. Das Bundesarbeitsgericht gab ihr letztlich Recht. Was hat dieses Urteil ihr und anderen gebracht? Eine Bilanz.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 515 nodes and 6379 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Assessing Dynamic Connectedness in Global Supply Chain Infrastructure Portfolios: The Impact of Risk Factors and Extreme Events
Haibo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04858 https…

Assessing Dynamic Connectedness in Global Supply Chain Infrastructure Portfolios: The Impact of Risk Factors and Extreme Events
This paper analyses the risk factors around investing in global supply chain infrastructure: the energy market, investor sentiment, and global shipping costs. It presents portfolio strategies associated with dynamic risks. A time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) model is used to study the spillover and interconnectedness of the risk factors for global supply chain infrastructure portfolios from January 5th, 2010, to June 29th, 2023, which are associated with a set of environmen…

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Sam Osian, Arpan Dutta, Sahil Bhandari, Iain E. Buchan, Dan W. Joyce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20786

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, issued by coroners in England and Wales, flag systemic hazards that may lead to further loss of life. Analysis of these reports has previously been constrained by the manual effort required to identify and code relevant cases. In 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a national thematic review of child-suicide PFD reports ($\leq$ 18 years), identifying 37 cases from January 2015 to November 2023 - a process based entirely on manual c…

'I think this is really his time': Why the Raiders need Tyree Wilson to live up to first-round billing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45859555/las-vegas-raiders-defensive-lineman-tyree-wilson-first-round…

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
Giuseppe Pagano Giorgianni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03792 https://arxiv.org…

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
This paper examines how natural gas price shocks affect Italian firms' pricing decisions and inflation expectations using quarterly survey data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Inflation and Growth Expectations (SIGE) spanning 1999Q4-2025Q2. We identify natural gas price shocks through a Bayesian VAR with sign and zero restrictions. Our findings reveal that these shocks are a primary driver of firms' inflation expectations, particularly during the post-COVID period (2021-2023) when supply dis…

"Donald Trump Jr. tweeted in July 2023, "Show us all the Epstein client list now!!! Why would anyone protect those scum bags? Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!"
Critics Bring Receipts As Don Jr Tries To Defend Dad Over WSJ Story | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/critics-bring-receipts-don-jr-tries-defend

Working on the #perl 5.42 update for #nixpkgs - unfortunately perl-cross hasn't been released for 5.42 yet which is a bit of a blocker. In general it feels like the declining interest in maintaining #CPAN packages are going to be a problem over time. For instance EV hasn't had a release since 2023 and needed a patch to work with 5.42

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01596 https://arxiv.o…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio sources are faint. Best et al. (2023) classified the radio sources in LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 through multiwavelength SED fitting. With the classification results of them, we perform a supervised machine learning to distinguish radio AGNs and radio SFGs. Aims…

A federal judge dismisses Trump's ~$50M 2023 lawsuit against Bob Woodward for publishing tapes from interviews for his 2020 book Rage as an audiobook (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/d

Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/less-tha

Less than 2 years after Flexport bought Convoy’s tech stack, it’s being sold to DAT
Flexport is selling the Convy tech stack to DAT, less than two years after it bought it from the defunct digital brokerage.

TIL that the UK won the 2023 SpoGomi world cup. (and that "SpoGomi" is competitive litter picking.)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/26/japanese-competitive-litter-picking-spogomi-sport-thrives-in-u…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2023 BBC Proms: Sibelius Symphony No 1
The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storgårds are joined by Canadian violinist James Ehnes in Walton’s fiercely direct Violin Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ftxh

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
Mingfeng Qin, Jian-Ning Fu, Weikai Zong, Peter De Cat, Antonio Frasca, Tianqi Cang, Jiangtao Wang, Jianrong Shi, Ali Luo, Haotong Zhang, Hongliang Yan, J. Molenda- \.Zakowicz, R. O. Gray, Jiaxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
The LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LK-MRS) conducted time-domain medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of 20 LAMOST plates in the Kepler and K2 fields from 2018 to 2023, a phase designated as LK-MRS-I. A catalog of stellar parameters for a total of 36,588 stars, derived from the spectra collected during these five years, including the effective temperature, the surface gravity, the metallicity, the α-element abundance, the radial velocity, and v sin i of the ta…

Die deutschen Unternehmen halten sich bei Neueinstellungen im IT-Bereich derzeit stark zurück. Laut einer aktuellen Analyse des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln ging die Zahl offener IT-Stellen zwischen 2023 und 2024 um mehr als ein Viertel zurück – ein Minus von rund 16.500 Stellen.
Zum Artikel:

Von Verein #KlimaschutzSchweiz
🧵 👇
Schluss mit versteckten Emissionen, fordern wir JETZT #Transparenz!
Wusstest du, dass #TEMU im Jahr 2023 weltweit rund 2 Millionen Tonnen an Pakete…

Slavic Techniques for Hat Guessing Algorithms
I. M. J. McInnis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21487

Slavic Techniques for Hat Guessing Algorithms
2023 undergraduate thesis on a deterministic "hat game." For a digraph $D$, each player stands on a vertex $v$, is assigned a hat from $h(v)$ possible colors, and makes $g(v)$ guesses of her hat's color based on her out-neighbors' hats. If there exists a collective strategy that guarantees a correct guess for any hat assignment, the game is winnable. Which games $(D,g,h)$ are winnable? Two much-studied parameters: $μ(D)$ is the maximum integer $k$ such that $(D,1,k)$ is winnable, and $\hatμ(D…

I am sad to be one of the Canadians who’ve chosen to avoid discretionary travel to the US, under the current government, that they’re talking about in this video.
As a comparison, here are my in-the-US discretionary spends for the first halves of 2023, 2024, 2025. This does not include air travel or accommodation. This is in-person spending on things like restaurants, gas, entertainment, parking, food.
2023Q1Q2: 1763.97 USD
2024Q1Q2: 1455.82 USD
2025Q1Q2: 172.12 USD

Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries
P. Gandhi, D. M. Russell, M. C. Baglio, Y. Bhargava, R. Duncan, A. G\'urpide, C. O. Heinke, C. Knigge, K. S. Long, T. J. Maccarone, G. Mastroserio, T. D. Russell, A. W. Shaw, A. J. Tetarenko, F. M. Vincentelli, E. S. Borowski, D. A. H. Buckley, P. Casella, C. Dashwood Brown, G. C. Dewangan, R. I. Hynes, S. Markoff, J. A. Tomsick, K. Alabarta, F. Carot…

Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Progress in understanding the growth of accreting black holes remains hampered by a lack of sensitive coordinated multiwavelength observations. In particular, the mid-infrared (MIR) regime remains ill-explored except for jet-dominant states. Here, we present comprehensive follow-up of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 during a disc-dominated state in its 2023/24 outburst as part of a multi-wavelength campaign coordinated around JWST/MIRI. The X-ray properties are fairly typical of soft accre…

Human beings need love, so everyone is someone "For Those In Need of Love Today"
#InstrumentalMusic #MellowMusic #NowPlaying

For Those In Need Of Love Today #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko, Rodrigo Costas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22013

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected foreign co-funding, authorship patterns, and the citation impact of articles funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). The analysis includes articles in Scopus-indexed journals between 2020 and 2023. The share of articles funded by these agencies increased from 8.6% in 2020-2021 to 11.9% in 2…

Fagin's Theorem for Semiring Turing Machines
Guillermo Badia, Manfred Droste, Thomas Eiter, Rafael Kiesel, Carles Noguera, Erik Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18375 https:/…

Fagin's Theorem for Semiring Turing Machines
In recent years, quantitative complexity over semirings has been intensively investigated. An important problem in this context is to connect computational complexity with logical expressiveness. In this paper we improve on the model of \emph{Semiring Turing Machines} (distinct from so called weighted Turing machines) introduced by Eiter \& Kiesel (Semiring Reasoning Frameworks in AI and Their Computational Complexity, \emph{J. Artif. Intell. Res.}, 2023). Our central result is a Fagin-style th…

"Open-Access-Publikationen der TU9 bei kommerziellen Verlagen: Transformationsverträge und Kostentransparenz von 2019 bis 2023": Masterarbeit von Rhiannon Schmitt am @…: https://doi.org/10.18452/34354

📈 Bioscience researchers shared data in 92% of articles that we manually evaluated from 2023. In the chart 👇 orange shading shows 45% of articles shared ALL the relevant data, up from 7% in 2014👏. Sharing varied by data type as expected, 🧬 vs. 🔬, among several other factors.
Thanks to BIH QUEST @ChariteBerlin for ODDPub, which gave a parallel, programmatic evaluation.

In contrast, testing an international sample of circadian, neuroscience and mental health articles by the same manual method … 2/3
Edited for Alt-text.

best buddies

Teil der deutschen Produktionsketten (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10082

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

Existence, uniqueness, and long-time asymptotic behavior of regular solutions in multidimensional thermoelasticity
Piotr Micha{\l} Bies, Tomasz Cie\'slak, Mario Fuest, Johannes Lankeit, Boris Muha, Srdan Trifunovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20794

Existence, uniqueness, and long-time asymptotic behavior of regular solutions in multidimensional thermoelasticity
We study a simplified nonlinear thermoelasticity model on two- and three-dimensional tori. A novel functional involving the Fisher information associated with temperature is introduced, extending the previous one-dimensional approach from the first two authors (SIAM J.\ Math.\ Anal.\ \textbf{55} (2023), 7024--7038)) to higher dimensions. Using this functional, we prove global/local existence of unique regular solutions for small/large initial data. Furthermore, we analyze the asymptotic behavio…

Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
Chowdhury Shahriar Muzammel, Maria Spichkova, James Harland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15197

Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
In requirements engineering (RE), personas are now being used to represent user expectations and needs. This systematic mapping study (SMS) aims to explore the most recent studies and to cover recent changes in trends, especially related to the recent evolution of Generative AI approaches. Our SMS covers the period between April 2023 and April 2025. We identified 22 relevant publications and analysed persona representation, construction, validation, as well as RE activities covered by personas.…

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
Gerardo Gonz\'alez Robert, Mumtaz Hussain, Benjamin Ward, Lauren White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17167

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
We determine the Lebesgue measure and Hausdorff dimension of various sets of real numbers with infinitely many partial quotients that are both large and prime, thus extending the well-known theorems by Łuczak (1997) and Huang-Wu-Xu (2020). To this end, we obtain new asymptotics on the tail end of the almost prime zeta function. Our results include some recent work by Schindler-Zweim{ü}ller (2023).

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
The story of titanium.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-story-of-titanium
saved 2023-11-24

The Story of Titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust.

einschalten: sendung über #adhs im dlf kultur. bis 10 h
edit: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Philipsen, Direktorin der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie am Universitätsklinikum Bonn habe ich 2023 auf 1 kongress gehört. phantastisch! riesiges wissen und sehr viel empathie.

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
Diam Ba, Gorgui Gning, Gandasor Bonyiri Onesiphore Da, Oumar Foly Sow, Gane Samb Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18032 https://

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
The skew normal law has been introduced in Azzalin (1985) as an alternative to adjusting asymmetric data that share important patterns with the normal law. It has been extensively studied. However, there is so much to do in order to catch the diversity and the richness of the investigation of its normal counterpart. The General Jarque-Berra Test (GJBT) has been devised by Lo et al. (2015), Da et al. (2023) for arbitrary laws with at least finite first eight moments, as a generalization of the J…

Enterprise Security Incident Analysis and Countermeasures Based on the T-Mobile Data Breach
Zhuohan Cui, Zikun Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12937 https:…

Enterprise Security Incident Analysis and Countermeasures Based on the T-Mobile Data Breach
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of T-Mobile's critical data breaches in 2021 and 2023, alongside a full-spectrum security audit targeting its systems, infrastructure, and publicly exposed endpoints. By combining case-based vulnerability assessments with active ethical hacking techniques--including Shodan reconnaissance, API misuse simulations, VNC brute-forcing, firmware reverse engineering, and web application scans--we uncover structural weaknesses persisting beyond the initial b…

Trotz der UN-Vereinbarung von 2023, die globale #Energie aus #Erneuerbaren bis 2030 zu verdreifachen, haben nur wenige Länder ihre Ziele angepasst.
Laut Analyse bleibt die Welt deutlich hinter dem 11-TW-Ziel zurück. Vor allem große Emittenten wie die

The BBC reports 2024-25 revenue up 9% YoY to £5.9B, £3.8B license fee income after an inflationary price rise, and a £132M deficit, down from £263M in 2023-24 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b221217d-1f95-41b1-92d3-d8626caedf24

Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook (Brunella Tipismana Urbano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

The NFL's one and only HBCU draft pick won't soon forget where he comes from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45787483/baltimore-ravens-draft-pick-carson-vinson-hbcu-background

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Predicting VBAC Outcomes from U.S. Natality Data using Deep and Classical Machine Learning Models
Ananya Anand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21330 https://arx…

Predicting VBAC Outcomes from U.S. Natality Data using Deep and Classical Machine Learning Models
Accurately predicting the outcome of a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) is essential for guiding prenatal counseling and minimizing delivery-related risks. This study presents supervised machine learning models for predicting vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) using 643,029 TOLAC cases from the CDC WONDER Natality dataset (2017-2023). After filtering for singleton births with one or two prior cesareans and complete data across 47 prenatal-period features, three classifiers were trained: l…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gretel Hänlyn:
🎵 Apple Juice (6 Music Session, 11 Jan 2023)
#GretelHänlyn
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A5aS28dQBFswox9AefLSX

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/subtle-drama-nowplaying/

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15524 https://

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We curate and manually annotate a novel Hebrew-language corpus of 10,410 sentences drawn from Knesset speeches (1993-2023), Facebook posts (2018-2021), and leading news outlets, of which 1,812 instances (17.4\%) exhibit PDD and 642 carry additional annotations for intensity, incivility, target type, and affective framing…

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest
Fei Wu, Danning Sui, Thomas Thiery, Mallesh Pai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13023

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest
This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economics and dynamics behind arbitrages between centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEX-DEX) on Ethereum. We refine heuristics to identify arbitrage transactions from on-chain data and introduce a robust empirical framework to estimate arbitrage revenue without knowing traders' actual behaviors on CEX. Leveraging an extensive dataset spanning 19 months from August 2023 to March 2025, we estimate a total of 233.8M USD extracted …

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16420 https:…

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
We report on NICER X-ray observations of the Be X-ray binary A 0538-66 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Fast pulsations (69 ms) in this source were discovered in 1980 during a bright outburst in which it reached a luminosity of ~8E38 erg/s, but were never reobserved since then. We clearly detected the pulsations at P=69.3055 +/- 0.0005 ms with a pulsed fraction of ~20% during a short time interval (~11 minutes) on 2023 January 9, when A 0538-66 had a luminosity of ~8E36 erg/s (0.3-10 keV)…

NFLPA dispute emerges over lawsuit awareness https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45762449/nflpa-members-disagree-knowledge-lloyd-howell-lawsuit

Mode stability for self-similar blowup of slightly supercritical NLS: I. low-energy spectrum
Zexing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11248 https://

Mode stability for self-similar blowup of slightly supercritical NLS: I. low-energy spectrum
We consider self-similar blowup for (NLS) $i\partial_t u + Δu + u|u|^{p-1} = 0$ in $d \ge 1$ and slightly mass-supercritical range $0 < s_c := \frac d2 - \frac{2}{p-1} \ll 1$. The existence and stability of such dynamics [Merle-Raphaël-Szeftel, 2010] and construction of suitable profiles [Bahri-Martel-Raphaël, 2021] lead to the question of asymptotic stability. Based on our previous work [Li, 2023], this nonlinear problem is reduced to linear mode stability of the matrix linearized…

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'`,…

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
\"Ozge \c{S}ahin, Annemiek Kwast, Annemieke Witteveen, Tina Nane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22771

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
Accurate prediction of postoperative complications can support personalized perioperative care. However, in surgical settings, data collection is often constrained, and identifying which variables to prioritize remains an open question. We analyzed 767 elective bowel surgeries performed under an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol at Medisch Spectrum Twente (Netherlands) between March 2020 and December 2023. Although hundreds of variables were available, most had substantial missingness or…

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SpellBound – First Music Video from “…The Dining Room” #inspiration #musicvideo #piano #pianoimprov…

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