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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…

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

The Density Profile of Dynamical Halos
Tristen Shields, Edgar M. Salazar, Eduardo Rozo, Aakanksha Adya, Calvin Osinga, Ze'ev Vladimir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00410

The Density Profile of Dynamical Halos
Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by García et al. [R. García et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting particles in a gravitationally bound structure, we characterize the mean and scatter of the orbiting profile of dynamical halos as a function of their orbiting mass. We demonstrate that the orbiting profile of individual halos at fixed mass depends on a single d…

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
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"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 […]

IBM: Average cost of a data breach in US shoots to record $10 million https://therecord.media/ibm-data-breach-report-us-losses

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

LADbible launches Betches, the US women's media brand it acquired in 2023, in the UK aiming to fill a "gap in the market" for Gen Z and millennial women (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publish…

Ladbible launches Betches in UK to talk ‘with, not to’ millennial and Gen Z women
US women's media brand Betches has launched in the UK aiming to fill a gap in the market for Gen Z and millennial audiences and clients.

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

Underhållande artikel
Ultra-Processed Evidence - May Contain Lies https://maycontainlies.com/ultra-processed-evidence/

Ultra-Processed Evidence - May Contain Lies
Chris van Tulleken’s “Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … And Why Can’t We Stop?”, on the dangers of Ultra-Processed Food (UPF), was one of the most successful books of 2023. It was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller and an Economist, Daily Mail, Good Housekeeping, and Amazon Book of the […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Last Dinner Party:
🎵 Nothing Matters (6 Music Session, 7 Jul 2023)
#TheLastDinnerParty
https://lookingglassalice.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-matters-the-last-dinner-party-looking-glass-alice-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3p84R45PM75ngq8XRoe45o

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

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"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

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

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…

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.

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.

Using stochastic thermodynamics with internal variables to capture orientational spreading in cell populations undergoing cyclic stretch
Rohan Abeyaratne, Sanjay Dharmaravan, Giuseppe Saccomandi, Giuseppe Tomassetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15694

Using stochastic thermodynamics with internal variables to capture orientational spreading in cell populations undergoing cyclic stretch
We revisit the modeling framework introduced in [N. Loy and L. Preziosi: Bull. Math. Bio., 85, 2023] to describe the dynamics of cell orientation under cyclic stretch. We propose a reformulation based on the principles of Stochastic Thermodynamics with Internal Variables introduced in [T. Leadbetter, P. Purohit, and C. Reina: PNAS Nexus, 2, 2023]. This approach allows us to describe not only the evolution of the orientation distribution, but also the observed spreading phenomenon. The insight p…

"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

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

BlackSuit ransomware gang’s darknet websites seized by police https://therecord.media/blacksuit-ransomware-gang-website-takedown

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.

just wanted to Sign up to CodeBerg and noticed that I have an account there - since 2023 🤯

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)…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

from my link log —
Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2023/radical-cs
saved 2025-01-14

Attention nerds: For God's sake, can we PLEASE get Dungeons & Dragons 2 already?
▶️ Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Official Trailer (2023 Movie)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII&si=LlSaWnz1qAKrRmxc

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

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.

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

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…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Beyond the Clouds: Advanced Data Analysis of a Dutch Sky Quality Meter Network
Farhan R. Shah (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands), Reynier F. Peletier (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands), Jake Noel-Storr (Access Astronomy), Dirk van der Geest (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands), Theo Jurriens (Science LinX, Faculty of Science and Engineer…

Beyond the Clouds: Advanced Data Analysis of a Dutch Sky Quality Meter Network
Light pollution is an increasing environmental concern, impacting both ecological systems and human health. This report presents an analysis of light pollution data from the \textit{Was het donker} SQM network from 2020 until 2023, with a focus on indirect light pollution, commonly known as skyglow. By integrating measurements from Sky Quality Meter (SQM) stations in the network and cloud cover data from EUMETSAT, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of night sky brightness across a region enc…

Rural #Colorado town with less than 10,000 population has hyped up #cowboy #cops whose excessive force incidents are on dramatic rise, far outpacing #Denver

TTS-CtrlNet: Time varying emotion aligned text-to-speech generation with ControlNet
Jaeseok Jeong, Yuna Lee, Mingi Kwon, Youngjung Uh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04349

TTS-CtrlNet: Time varying emotion aligned text-to-speech generation with ControlNet
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled natural speech synthesis, but fine-grained, time-varying emotion control remains challenging. Existing methods often allow only utterance-level control and require full model fine-tuning with a large emotion speech dataset, which can degrade performance. Inspired by adding conditional control to the existing model in ControlNet (Zhang et al, 2023), we propose the first ControlNet-based approach for controllable flow-matching TTS (TTS-CtrlNet)…

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…

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
Lin Lan, He Gao, Shunke Ai, Wen-Jin Xie, Yong Yuan, Long Li, Li-Ping Xin, Jian-Yan Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11110

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
A newly born millisecond magnetar has been proposed as one possible central engine of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with X-ray plateau emission. In this work, we systematically analyzed the \emph{Swift}/XRT data of long GRBs with plateau emission that were detected before 2023 December, and estimated the magnetar parameters by considering the $R/I$ evolutionary effects, and investigated possible relationships among these parameters and their relation to the GRB jet and magnetar wind radiation. W…