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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/

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling
On behalf of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan Cabinet suspended its previous endorsement of Robert Spatz’s organisation Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC). This suspension is conditional…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 02.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

Preview videos of the final DreamState suite #inspiration #music #musicvideo

Preview videos of the final DreamState suite
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jaaaaaa.... ich habe mir gestern abend zusammen mit SO aus Versehen diesen Film auch angetan. DANKE ARD! ;-)
> Vergessen Sie mal den Titel dieses Blogs [Anm.: Mediathekperlen]. Das hier ist wahrlich keine Perle, sondern Sondermüll. Meine Verantwortung als Blogger und Gebührenzahler ist es, davor zu warnen. Es ist mir damit wirklich ernst!
> […] Was folgt, ist ein Culture-Clash-Gelage auf dem intellektuellen Niveau von Werbespots für Tiefkühlpizza.

Robert De Niro - "Und dann kam Dad" (2023)
Ich habe schon viel ertragen. Deutsche Sonntagabendkrimis. Dieter Hallervorden. Netflix-Algorithmen, die mich für einen Teenager mit Konzentrationsproblemen halten. Aber das hier, zur besten Sendezeit in der ARD? Das ist keine schlechte Programmierung mehr – das ist ein Angriff auf mein Restvertrauen in den öffentlich-rechtlichen Kulturauftrag! Vergessen Sie mal den Titel dieses Blogs. Das hier is

The new Online Safety Act – safety or authoritarianism?
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/the-new-online-safety-act-safet…

The new Online Safety Act – safety or authoritarianism?
Is the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with people having to age-verify for social media, a step toward safety or digital authoritarianism?

Nepo baby or late bloomer? Former 6th rounder has front office, Cowboys coaching connect https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/03/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-42-rb-deuce-vaughn/85…

From 2023: Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (Live on KEXP) https://youtu.be/Q3CVl7QYhmA <-- 30 years old! forever great!

„Wieder glücklich“ - Witwer von Tina Turner zeigt sich mit neuer Liebe #News #Nachrichten

Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at ~$30B, up from $9.1B in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-…

T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."

„The Explorers“ by Critikill
Platform: Amiga
Released: 26 August 2023
Note: 2nd in the Xenium 2023 Oldschool GFX competition
#GFX_Critikill #YR_2023 #PF_Amiga

Olha, Portugal ali em primeiro.
Curioso que quando nos ensinam na escola os descobrimentos nem sempre nos digam também que "descobrimentos" sempre implicaram imperialismo e colonialismo e o que deles vem.
Em grande medida, Portugal criou o mundo moderno. Com o que isso tem de bom E com o (muito) que tem de mau. Mas por cš raramente se fala do mau.

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image **European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer** _Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._ 🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer. #Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons@a.gup.pe

Systemic Trade Risk Suppresses Comparative Advantage in Rare Earth Dependent Industries
Peter Klimek, Sophia Baum, Markus Gerschberger, Maximilian Hess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00556

Systemic Trade Risk Suppresses Comparative Advantage in Rare Earth Dependent Industries
Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical to a wide range of clean and high-tech applications, yet global trade dependencies expose countries to vulnerabilities across production networks. Here, we construct a multi-tiered input-output trade network spanning 168 REE-related product codes from 2007-2023 using a novel AI-augmented statistical framework. We identify significant differences between dependencies in upstream and intermediate (input) products, revealing that exposure and supplier concen…

KI krempelt vieles um. Es ist so einfach, wie nie, Content zu produzieren. Gleichzeitig bekommen wir durch die Veränderungen bei Google & Co. (allen voran durch die AI Overviews) immer weniger Klicks auf unseren Content. Persönlichkeit wird zum wichtigsten Unterscheidungsmerkmal, meint Judith Peters #Bloggen #KI

Monatsrückblick Mai 2025: Die KI-Explosion
ChatGPT hat Anfang 2023 unser Leben überrollt. Aber erst jetzt, ca. 2,5 Jahre später, habe ich das Gefühl: KI ist...

Settle–Carlisle line! ❤️ Did it in 2023, stopped at Ribblehed to go and admire the viaduct more closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbtl3i5WBI

OMD at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, performing 'Anthropocene' June 21, 2025.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zTghGUFb7Ajrn5ghO9ZQl?si=XNxEhurBRXaWIu3kJmY42Q&context=spotify:album:2yW1JUK…

Anthropocene
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · Bauhaus Staircase (The Complete Edition) · Song · 2023

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
https://ift.tt/8k0xBZm
Pirino on Suzuki, 'Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain (remastered 2023)
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator
Abderrahim Bendahi, Benjamin Doerr, Adrien Fradin, Johannes F. Lutzeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01107

Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator
The move-acceptance hyper-heuristic was recently shown to be able to leave local optima with astonishing efficiency (Lissovoi et al., Artificial Intelligence (2023)). In this work, we propose two modifications to this algorithm that demonstrate impressive performances on a large class of benchmarks including the classic Cliff$_d$ and Jump$_m$ function classes. (i) Instead of randomly choosing between the only-improving and any-move acceptance operator, we take this choice via a simple two-state…

Number of Texans receiving out-of-state abortions quadrupled between 2021 and 2023 (Christopher Adams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5432293-texas-out-of-state-abortions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p80#a250801p80

A couple years ago I made an accordion showing common message colors for applications:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/qBLNYBe
Some details:

Common Application Message Colors
Reflects colors I have seen used in messaging systems. Uses my [progressively enhanced HTML accordion](https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-...

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Shengkun Wang, Yanshen Sun, Fanglan Chen, Linhan Wang, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chang-Tien Lu, Yinlin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00765

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Accurate house-price forecasting is essential for investors, planners, and researchers. However, reproducible benchmarks with sufficient spatiotemporal depth and contextual richness for long horizon prediction remain scarce. To address this, we introduce HouseTS a large scale, multimodal dataset covering monthly house prices from March 2012 to December 2023 across 6,000 ZIP codes in 30 major U.S. metropolitan areas. The dataset includes over 890K records, enriched with points of Interest (POI),…

Fångsten på dagens Bandcamp Friday

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

According to my napkin estimations, and also assuming (unreasonably) that we will have cracked 100% fusion efficiency of E=mc² within the next few weeks, humans will have burned up the entire mantle of the Earth in approximately 2200 years.
This is using the 2023 figures for present use (15000 Mtoe, ie about 7 tonnes annually) and its 2.2% growth rate which, while suddenly up from the long standing 1.5%, is largely pre-LLMs.

T CrB: overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling
U. Munari, F. Walter, N. Masetti, P. Valisa, S. Dallaporta, A. Bergamini, G. Cherini, A. Frigo, A. Maitan, C. Marino, G. Mazzacurati, S. Moretti, F. Tabacco, S. Tomaselli, A. Vagnozzi, P. Ochner, I. Albanese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.233…

T CrB: overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling
(abridged) We aim to derive a robust estimate of the most important parameters describing the physical nature of T CrB, trace the accretion history onto its white dwarf, and account for the unexpected delay in the occurrence of the new outburst: the SAP prior to 1946 was brighter, and it was followed by the nova eruption within 6 months from its conclusion. This time the 2015-2023 SAP has been fainter and two years past its conclusion no new eruption has yet taken place. During 2005-2025, a per…

Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-openais-rocky-path-gpt-5

Inside OpenAI’s Rocky Path to GPT-5
OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better on tasks when it gets more time and computing power to process them. The results implied ChatGPT customers were about to be blown away by what the new AI ...

Yes, it’s absurd.
LLMs don’t scale to reach “AGI”. That is mathematically proven[1], so it doesn’t matter how large your data center is.
But that’s not the main reason why this is absurd—as a society we shouldn’t spend these enormous resources and lasting environmental damage on this _even if it would work_.
[1] https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …

Die restlichen Samen vom weißen #Mangold (der eigentlich gelber Mangold hätte sein sollen) aus dem Jahr 2023 sind noch gut gekeimt und liefern auch dieses Jahr wieder gute #Erträge.
Ich haeb wieder #Mangoldgemüse

Change of bifurcation type in 2D free boundary model of a moving cell with nonlinear diffusion
Leonid Berlyand, Oleksii Krupchytskyi, Tim Laux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03138

Change of bifurcation type in 2D free boundary model of a moving cell with nonlinear diffusion
We introduce a 2D free boundary problem with nonlinear diffusion that models a living cell moving on a substrate. We prove that this nonlinearity results in a qualitative of solution behavior compared to the linear diffusion case (Rybalko et al. TAMS 2023), namely the switch between direct and inverse pitchfork bifurcation. Our objectives are twofold: (i) develop a rigorous framework to prove existence of bifurcation and determining its type (subcritical vs. superctitical) and (ii) the deri…

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
E. Alkhuja, C. Henkel, Y. T. Yan, B. Winkel, Y. Gong, G. Wu, T. L. Wilson, A. Wootten, A. Malawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02214

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
W51-IRS2 is known to be one of the most prolific sources of interstellar ammonia (NH$_3$) maser lines. So far, however, many of these inversion lines have rarely been studied. Here we report spectrally resolved line profiles for the majority of detected features and provide information on the variability of these maser components between 2012 and 2023. This includes the first tentative detection of a ($J$,$K$) = (5,2) maser in the interstellar medium and the first tentative detection of a (6,4)…

EA schließt Studio und stampft "Black Panther"-Spiel ein
EA hat ein 2023 angekündigtes "Black Panther"-Spiel eingestampft. Das eigens dafür gegründete Entwicklerstudio wird geschlossen.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

On the homological shifts of cover ideals of Cohen-Macaulay graphs
Amit Roy, Kamalesh Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01810 https://a…

On the homological shifts of cover ideals of Cohen-Macaulay graphs
For a non-negative integer $k$, let $\mathrm{HS}_{k}(J(G))$ denote the $k^{\text{th}}$ homological shift ideal of the vertex cover ideal $J(G)$ of a graph $G$. For each $k\geq 2$, we construct a Cohen-Macaulay very well-covered graph $G_k$ which is both Cohen-Macaulay bipartite and a whiskered graph so that $\mathrm{HS}_{k}(J(G))$ does not have a linear resolution. This contradicts several results as well as disproves a conjecture in [J. Algebra, $\mathbf{629}$, (2023), 76-108] and [Mediterr. J…

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

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

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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…

OOOHH!!!! 🚨
Just got an email from the BC Government! My FOI request that I submitted almost exactly two years ago in 2023 has finally completed!
Looks like there is ALOT of redacted/partial disclosures
I'm going to keep a lid on what this is all about other than to say, it's about trains and climate change! lol (which is convenient, given my earlier post this morning)
Time for some light reading!
(edit: Holy.... it's 1600 pages!!!)
#FOI #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14853 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Near-Optimal Nonconvex-Strongly-Convex Bilevel Optimization with Fully First-Order Oracles
In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $ε$-stationary point within ${\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-2})$ oracle calls. However, the HVP oracle may be inaccessible or expensive in practice. Kwon et al. (ICML 2023) addressed this issue by proposing a first-order method that can achieve the same goal at a slower rate of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-3})$. In this pap…

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear #musicianresources #musiciantips #samplelibraries #samplelibrary

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports
Stefan M\"uller, Gabriel Okasa, Michaela Strinzel, Anne Jorstad, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00103

Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports
Peer review by experts is central to the evaluation of grant proposals, but little is known about how gender and disciplinary differences shape the content and tone of grant peer review reports. We analyzed 39,280 review reports submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2023, covering 11,385 proposals for project funding across 21 disciplines from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Life Sciences (LS), and Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technolog…

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

"Antarctic ice has grown again – but this does not buck overall melt trend"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

from my link log —
There is no software maintenance.
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
saved 2023-01-08

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

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining these new data with archival observations, we confirm previous suggestions of orbital variability in the source's X-ray spectrum, including increased X-ray absorption at the orbital phase interval of $ϕ\approx0.3\textrm{--}0.4$. The source's X-ray flux within this phase interval seems to have exhibited a significant…

Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Jozef Kla\v{c}ka, Michal \v{S}turc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23551

Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Context. Latest papers on the rotation curve of the Milky Way galaxy, i. e. Ou et al. (2024); Jiao et al. (2023); Sylos Labini et al. (2023) suggest a Keplerian decrease in the rotation curve. This behavior is not consistent with other spiral galaxies (Lelli et al. 2016; Mistele et al. 2024). Aims. Show that the prior use of the axisymmetric Jeans equation is not consistent with the final model produced in the papers. Methods. Comparison of the results on gravitational potential in Ou et al. (2…

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Meina Zhu, Lanyu Xu, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21818

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Given the increasing demands in computer programming education and the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLMs play a critical role in programming education. This study provides a systematic review of selected empirical studies on LLMs in computer programming education, published from 2023 to March 2024. The data for this review were collected from Web of Science (SCI/SSCI), SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, as well as three conference proceedings specialized in computer programm…

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

Significantly over the required 1.21 gigawatts…
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114755431266931818

Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
27 M tonnes. Dutch NIOZ scientists found that nanoplastics (<1 μm) are not only widespread, but equivalent to the mass of macro & microplastics! Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) #plastics don't just float on th…

A day in the life of a working musician #composing #homestudio #music #recording

A day in the life of a working musician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

Is “Bicycle Fishing” really a thing?
➡️ http://www.all-the-bikes.com/2023/04/Introduction to Bicycle Fishing.html
#bikeTooter

Introduction to Bicycle Fishing
Bicycle fishing is a unique and exciting way to explore the great outdoors while catching fish. Combining the joys of cycling and fishing, ...

I don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736

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…

Linguist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Common Dreams writer C.J. Polychroniou on the subject of ChatGPT in this May 2023 piece. Chomsky's stance on LLMs is that as long as we're not able to atomically understand what goes on in the statistical black box that currently is an LLM, linguists won't be able to benefit from being able to see whether it learns language like a human does, or not.
"Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For"

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
Estifa'a Zaid (University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21219

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab seeks to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly, $a_μ=(g-2)/2$, with a final target precision of 0.14 parts-per-million (ppm). The experiment's initial result, published in 2021 using Run 1 data from 2018, confirmed the previous measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory with a comparable sensitivity of 0.46 ppm. In 2023, a new result based on Run 2 and Run 3 data, collected in 2019 and 2020, was released. These datasets contain four times the data from…

Two classes of NMDS codes from Roth-Lempel codes
Zhonghao Liang, Qunying Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19346 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Two classes of NMDS codes from Roth-Lempel codes
Since near maximum distance separable (NMDS) codes have good algebraic properties and excellent error-correcting capabilities, they have been widely used in various fields such as communication systems, data storage, quantum codes, and so on. In this paper, basing on the generator matrix of Roth-Lempel codes, we present two classes of NMDS codes which generalize Han's and Zheng's constructions in 2023 and 2025, respectively. And we also completely determine their weight distributions.

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
Sergii Skurativskyi, Sergiy Mykulyak, Yuliya Semenova, Kateryna Skurativska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22829

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
The research focuses on seismic events that occurred in Azerbaijan and adjacent territories, regions known for strong seismic activity. We analyze a catalog of recorded earthquakes between 2010 and 2023, extracting the locations of the earthquake hypocenters for study purposes. Using statistical methods and cluster analysis tools, we developed a procedure for partitioning hypocenter clusters. The procedure begins with estimates of the Morisita Index, which is suitable for preliminary assessment…

NFL will not hold Supplemental Draft in 2025: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6456326/2025/06/27/nfl-no-supplemental-draft/

"Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries"
#Gaza #Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

#ThanksGiving – What I’m thankful for. #connection #family #gratitude

#ThanksGiving - What I'm thankful for.
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Mirza Arnaut, Christian W\"ohler, Pritish Halder, Goldy Ahuja, Shashikiran Ganesh, Megha Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21284

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Imaging polarimetry is a well-known method for analysing the structure and composition of cometary dust. Accordingly, comets are classified based on the phase angle dependent degree of linear polarization of their comae. The goal of this study is to examine the size and structure of the dust grains in the coma and in particular in the tail of the bright comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and to infer possible variations. For this purpose, we rely on the method of telescopic wide-field polarime…

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.

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

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

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

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…

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…

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

🇺🇦 #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

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
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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…

And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Energy Demand on the Global Scale: A Bayesian Partial Pooling Model
Peer Lasse Hinrichsen, Katrin Rehdanz, Richard S. J. Tol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22768

Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Energy Demand on the Global Scale: A Bayesian Partial Pooling Model
This paper contributes to the limited literature on the temperature sensitivity of residential energy demand on a global scale. Using a Bayesian Partial Pooling model, we estimate country-specific intercepts and slopes, focusing on non-linear temperature response functions. The results, based on data for up to 126 countries spanning from 1978 to 2023, indicate a higher demand for residential electricity and natural gas at temperatures below -5 degrees Celsius and a higher demand for electricity…

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

Analysis: in H1 2025, 500 orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df01dcf8-dbc4-4b56-8d8b-67b7e6a83eef

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

from my link log —
Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust.
https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2023/04/20/rust-compile-time-checks/
saved 2023-04-27

Analyst ignores Dak Prescott's best campaign while predicting 2025 floor and ceiling https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/analyst-ignores-dak-prescott-best-campaign-while-predicting-2025-floor-ceiling

Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team following Evans Hankey's departure in 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/apple-design-team-tim-cook/

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO...

from my link log —
An epicyclic clock.
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/
saved 2023-06-22 https://

Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised €1B since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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…

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

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Meditation Suite 2
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic #NowPlaying

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Was kann man noch alles so mit den Rohdaten des Marktstammdatenregisters machen?
Man kann berechnen, wie viele #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr gebaut wurden.
#Balkonsolar #Solarenergie

Music Meditation - musical sounds for meditative practice
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic
https://…

Music Meditation - musical sounds for meditative practice
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Zubau (netto) der Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland.
Hoffe, es stimmt. Wer Langeweile hat, kann ja mal nachrechnen. 😆

#Balkonsolar #Energiewende