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PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

Ein Nebeneffekt der chinesischen"Solarmauer" ist, dass die Vegetation vom Schatten der Paneele profitiert und die Wüste damit zurückgedrängt wird.
https://www.sonnenseite.com/de/energie/die

Die Grüne Chinesische Solarmauer in der Kubuqi-Wüste entwickelt sich zum größten Klimaschutzprojekt der Welt - Sonnenseite - Ökologische Kommunikation mit Franz Alt
Im Mai 2023 besuchte ich eines der größten Solar- und Begrünungsprojekte der Welt in der zur Gobi gehörenden Kubuqi-Wüste in China und berichtete

2023 gab es aufgeregte Berichte über eine rätselhafte Erwärmung des #Atlantik.
Nun erlebt der #Nordpazifik eine ungewöhnlich starke #MeeresHitzewelle.
Zwischen Juli und Septemb…

Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.

Social media ‘trust’/’distrust’ buttons could reduce spread of misinformation | UCL News - UCL – University College London
@… & @… I am tagging you, although maybe you already knew hehe

It's not "always" the AI's fault?
»Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems«
🤷 https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html

Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
  I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks ...

Sometimes I don't warm to my favorite band's newest album until it's been succeeded and is only their second newest album. And so I'm finally getting into Deerhoof's Miracle-Level (2023) now that Noble and Godlike in Ruin (2025) is out.

Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China after a 2023 ban, but will continue selling chips to auto and smartphone sectors (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transp…

(PDF, 2023) New directions in sensory substitution using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution https://www.seeingwithsound.com/extra/Durham2023.pdf Invited talk at Durham University workshop "New directions in sensory substitution and augmentation";

There is an ActivityPub proposal that involves the #DNS.
I have only just discovered it and have not considered it deeply so I am reluctant to make any grand statements. It is not obvious to me why this is useful or better than alternative approaches. It appears to involve the use of TXT RRs, any new de facto use of which makes me skeptical.

[TRACKING] FEP-612d: Identifying ActivityPub Objects through DNS
The proposal has been received. Thank you! This issue tracks discussions and updates to the proposal during the `DRAFT` period. Please post links to relevant discussions as comment to this issue. `dateReceived`: 2023-04-18 If no further actions are taken, the proposal may be set by ed...

On Sep 10, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 1x1 “𝗣𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁” 30 Sept 95 #DavidHasselhoff #GregoryAlanWilliams #AngieHarmon

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
Giacomo De Palma, Marco Fanizza, Connor Mowry, Ryan O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06147 https://

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
We study hypothesis testing (aka state certification) in the non-identically distributed setting. A recent work (Garg et al. 2023) considered the classical case, in which one is given (independent) samples from $T$ unknown probability distributions $p_1, \dots, p_T$ on $[d] = \{1, 2, \dots, d\}$, and one wishes to accept/reject the hypothesis that their average $p_{\mathrm{avg}}$ equals a known hypothesis distribution $q$. Garg et al. showed that if one has just $c = 2$ samples from each $p_i$,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Level 42:
🎵 Running In The Family
#Level42
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/level-42-running-in-the-family-oren-amram-2023-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1x8eR79qEHjqSRAeQzV8c2

Verizon agrees to buy Starry, which provides home internet via millimeter wave tech to ~100K customers and filed for bankruptcy in 2023, for an undisclosed sum (Masha Abarinova/Fierce Network)
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/verizon-buys-starry-what-y…

On Jun 10, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 3 Episode 18 “𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵” 21 Feb 1993 starring #DavidHasselhoff #NicoleEggert #PamelaAnderson