2026-03-01 11:36:23
Ministry - Goddamn White Trash (Official Music Video) - Premiered on 17 Aug 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs
Ministry - Goddamn White Trash (Official Music Video) - Premiered on 17 Aug 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs
Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday
SpaceX's draft IPO filing: from 2023 to 2025, Starlink's individual subscribers rose from 2.3M to 8.9M, revenue grew from $3.9B to $11.4B, and ARPU fell 18% (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexs-starli…
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A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.
https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/
saved 2023-11-05
Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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Cost to Build a Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Surges by 66% in two years, BNEF Says. The average project expense for a US gas power plant with combined-cycle turbines, the more efficient CCGT type, rose to $2,157 per kilowatt last year from less than $1,500 in 2023.
https://www.
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com"Amazon rainforest flipped to carbon source during 2023 extreme drought, study shows"
#AmazonRainforest #Environment
Voyage rocambolesque ou bienvenu en Mongolie
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2023/02/voyage-rocambolesque-ou-bienvenu-en.html
Pop Around the Clock: Sting: My Songs - Live at Château de Chambord - #ARD #sat3
#PopAroundTheClock #Sting
Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
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'`,…
The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…
Seahawks exercise fifth-year player options for Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7135543/2026/03/20/smith-njigba-witherspoon-seahawks-fifth-year-player-option-nfl/
Apart from developing a 1st offshore storage site, Denmark awarded subsidies💶 in tenders. Those came with a catch: deliver on time - or face penalties. The winner of the first tender in 2023, Ørsted with two bioenergy🪵🔥 plants, is already struggling with delays.
In the last round, 9 of 10 preselected applicants dropped out, all of them bioenergy🪵🔥 or waste-to-energy🗑️🔥 plants. Did I say 9? Well, 9 announced it, but one mystery🔮 bidder decided to un-drop out. The tender ended with two b…
The Argentinian president, Javier Milei,
is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023
as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a
$5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto project.
The scandal has tarnished crypto’s reputation across Argentina
and set back the ambitions of industry insiders who saw the country as fertile soil for the growth of digital money.
Milei’s promotion of…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comSwarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/swarm-aero-seriesa-drone-factory
Prune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Sampa the Great:
🎵 Let Me Be Great (6 Music Session, 5 Jul 2023)
#SampatheGreat
https://sampathegreat.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-be-great
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sXjwoCydLIZlJ1WpIyh9J
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My today's #footpathFriday is one from the archives. I was really bad prepared that day, but luckily everything turned out well -- and I got this fantastic, dramatic shot!
more about that day: http…
Gerade passend zur #Ölkrise und #spritpreis Debatten: 1973 fingen manche Tankstellen an Fahrräder zu verkaufen..
Bild aus diesem schönen Bericht:
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Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x
saved 2023-11-07
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@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Last Rotation of Earth (6 Music Session, 11 May 2023)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-rotation-of-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/07MmMkkxvMpcc9uvfjj46i
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Clark:
🎵 Town Crank (6 Music Session, 15 May 2023)
#Clark
https://clark.bandcamp.com/track/town-crank-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w77Bte17HghSNsC22mFXU