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Alexa : Amazons neue Assistentin ist endlich final
Bereits Ende 2023 präsentierte Amazon seine verbesserte Assistentin, nun "Alexa ". Zumindest in den USA hat sie Marktreife erreicht.
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Dynamical Excitation as a probe of planetary origins
Brad M. S. Hansen, Tze-Yeung Yu, Neel Nagarajan, Yasuhiro Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01332 https://

Dynamical Excitation as a probe of planetary origins
We present a set of numerical simulations of the dynamical evolution of compact planetary systems migrating in a protoplanetary disk whose inner edge is sculpted by the interaction with the stellar magnetic field, as described in Yu et al. (2023). We demonstrate that the resulting final distribution of neighbouring planet period ratios contains only a small surviving fraction of resonant systems, in accordance with observations. The resulting planetary architectures are largely in place by the …

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

4 updates to old posts this week:
1. Embeds Beau Vass’s id24 video:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comparing-manual-and-free-automated-wcag-reviews.html#Update07
2. Embeds Lola Odelola’s id24 video:

Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim. This is partly because WCAG is targeted at humans, not code, and so nuance and context apply. Free automated accessibility testing tools may have even…

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.

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

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Good Morning #Canada
There is a little known reporting tool on the ##StatsCan website called Canada’s Quality of Life Hub. First proposed in 2021, and launched in 2023, it is a framework that gathers data and evidence to inform priority setting and guide decision-making in various policy areas, including the budgetary process. The Framework comprises five domains –prosperity, health, environment, society, and good governance – and two cross-cutting lenses: fairness and inclusion, and sustainability and resilience. Not enough Canadians have heard of it, and I suspect very few government policies are implemented before analyzing the impact on quality of life measurement by this tool. On a positive note, #StatsCan is looking for feedback on how to improve the hub.
#CanadaIsAwesome #QualityOfLife
https://www160.statcan.gc.ca/index-eng.htm

Which major NFL trades look better -- worse -- in hindsight? Barnwell's fresh takes on 23 recent swaps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356119/nfl-trades-2022-2023-barnwell-russell-wilson-deshaun-watson-tyr…

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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"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

🦞 🇩🇪 💸 Ledger ( #AD2023) | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/wthfwo/ledger_2023#c_gfo9px
about the most tricky entries are those split 50/50 private/business and separate VAT, e.g…

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,…

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.

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
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Generalization Bound for a General Class of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Madhusudan Verma, Manoj Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18920 https://a…

Generalization Bound for a General Class of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) are a popular type of deep learning model that operate with continuous-depth architectures. To assess how well such models perform on unseen data, it is crucial to understand their generalization error bounds. Previous research primarily focused on the linear case for the dynamics function in neural ODEs - Marion, P. (2023), or provided bounds for Neural Controlled ODEs that depend on the sampling interval Bleistein et al. (2023). In this wor…

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

🔊 #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

Two updates to old posts, both from social media bits:
1. https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/the-children-are-driving-the-bus.html#Update01 adds this mini-thread for Bootlicker.js:

The Children Are Driving the Bus
The Vercel CEO over on the hell-site tweets: v0.dev produces the kind of production-grade code that we'd want to ship in our own @vercel products. That was the bar we set for ourselves. At the moment it can output HTML with @tailwindcss and React w/ @shadcn UI. pic.twitter.com/hWLzpmyaG2 Guillermo Rauch…

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…

The Ongoing Decline in Activity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
Ariel Graykowski, Guillaume Langin, David Chiron, Bruno Guillet, Franck Marchis, Nicolas Biver, G\'erard Arlic, Bernard Baudouin, Etienne Bertrand, Randall Blake, Cyrille Bosquet, John K. Bradley, Isabelle Brocard, Christophe Cac, Alain Cagna, Nicolas Castel, Eric Chariot, Olivier Clerget, Tom Coarrase, Lucas Cogniaux, Julien Collot, Christophe Cot\'e, Michel Deconinck, Jean-Paul Desgrees, Josselin Desmars, Giuseppe Di Tom…

The Ongoing Decline in Activity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
We report photometric observations of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 during its 2023 apparition. Our campaign, conducted from August through December 2023, combined data from a global network of citizen astronomers coordinated by Unistellar and the Association Française d'Astronomie. Photometry was derived using an automated pipeline for eVscope observations in partnership with the SETI Institute and aperture photometry via AstroLab Stellar. We find that the comet's peak reduced brightness, measured at …

Assessment of Socioeconomic Determinants of Voting Patterns: A Spatio-Temporal and Multinomial Logits Analysis of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
Vine Nwabuisi Madukpe, Chukwuma Bright Ugoala, Chiemela Uzochi Wokoma, Gloria Chinenye Nwachukwu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17507

Assessment of Socioeconomic Determinants of Voting Patterns: A Spatio-Temporal and Multinomial Logits Analysis of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
In Nigeria, electoral behavior is often interpreted through ethno-religious views and regional allegiances, without empirically assessing the influence of socioeconomic indicators such as health, income, education, and other deprivations on voter behavior. This study investigates the voting pattern in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election and previous cycles using spatio-temporal and multivariate analysis. It examines whether support for some candidates was more substantial in states with hig…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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'`,…

Enhanced Gravitational Effects of Radiation and Cosmological Implications
Hemza Azri, Kemal G\"ultekin, Adrian K. E. Tee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17384 https://

Enhanced Gravitational Effects of Radiation and Cosmological Implications
In the momentarily comoving frame of a cosmological fluid, the determinant of the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) is highly sensitive to its pressure. This component is significant during radiation-dominated epochs, and becomes naturally negligible as the universe transitions to the matter-dominated era. Here, we investigate the cosmological consequences of gravity sourced by the determinant of the EMT. Unlike Azri and Nasri, Phys. Lett. B 836, 137626 (2023), we consider the most general case in w…

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)…

Systematic Review Of Collaborative Learning Activities For Promoting AI Literacy
Ashish Hingle, Aditya Johri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15111 https://arxiv…

Systematic Review Of Collaborative Learning Activities For Promoting AI Literacy
Improving artificial intelligence (AI) literacy has become an important consideration for academia and industry with the widespread adoption of AI technologies. Collaborative learning (CL) approaches have proven effective for information literacy, and in this study, we investigate the effectiveness of CL in improving AI knowledge and skills. We systematically collected data to create a corpus of nine studies from 2015-2023. We used the Interactive-Constructive-Active-Passive (ICAP) framework to…

Status of the Trinity PeV Neutrino Observatory
S. Stepanoff (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. N. Otte (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Bagheri (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. Barletta (for the Trinity Collaboration), D. Bergmann (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Blose (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Bogdan (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. M. Brown (for the Trinity Collaboration), L. Cedeno (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Doro (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Fe…

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

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Raghav Sakhuja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16143 https://

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) and an integer k, the s-Club asks if Gcontains a vertex subset S of at least k vertices such that G[S] has diameter at most s. Recently, Vertex r-Triangle s-Club, and Edge r-Triangle s-Club that generalize the notion of s-Club have been studied by Garvardt et al. [TOCS-2023, IWOCA-2022] from the perspective of parameterized complexity. Given a graph G and an integer k, the Vertex r-Triangle s-Club asks if there is an s-Club S with at least k vertices such th…

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

Handling fabrication defects in hex-grid surface codes
Oscar Higgott, Benjamin Anker, Matt McEwen, Dripto M. Debroy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08116 https://

Handling fabrication defects in hex-grid surface codes
Recent work has shown that a hexagonal grid qubit layout, with only three couplers per qubit, is sufficient to implement the surface code with performance comparable to that of a traditional four-coupler layout [McEwen et al., 2023]. In this work we propose a method for handling broken qubits and couplers even in hex-grid surface code architectures, using an extension of the LUCI framework [Debroy et al., 2024]. We show that for isolated broken qubits, the circuit distance drops by one, while f…

Arithmetic properties of partition functions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki
Hemjyoti Nath, Manjil P. Saikia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08801 https://arxiv…

Arithmetic properties of partition functions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki
In this short note, we prove several infinite family of congruences for some restricted partitions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki (2022) (thereby, also proving a conjecture of Dasappa et. al. (2023)). We also prove some isolated congruences which seem to have been missed by earlier authors. Our proof techniques uses both elementary means as well as the theory of modular forms.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Roser Batlle-Roca, Laura Ib\'a\~nez-Mart\'inez, Xavier Serra, Emilia G\'omez, Mart\'in Rocamora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03599

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Since 2023, generative AI has rapidly advanced in the music domain. Despite significant technological advancements, music-generative models raise critical ethical challenges, including a lack of transparency and accountability, along with risks such as the replication of artists' works, which highlights the importance of fostering openness. With upcoming regulations such as the EU AI Act encouraging open models, many generative models are being released labelled as 'open'. However, the definiti…

Nach jahrelanger Kritik und ohne Nutzungsperspektive wird der umstrittene Tiefbrunnen von #CocaCola in #Gellersen bei #Lüneburg zurückgebaut.
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Grundwasser bleibt – Brunnen geht: Landkreis Lüneburg ordnet Rückbau des Brunnens von Coca-Cola an
Die als Mineralwasser-Brunnen geplante Grundwasser-Entnahmestelle in der Samtgemeinde Gellersen wird zurückgebaut. Am morgigen Freitag (24. November 2023) lässt das Unternehmen Coca-Cola bzw. die Apollinaris Brands GmbH als Eigentümerin der Bohrung...

"Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air"
#US #USA #America #Heatwave

Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air
Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants.

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Joseph Rodriguez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Jinhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08231

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Service reliability is critical to transit service delivery. This paper describes headway control pilots conducted in two high-ridership Chicago bus routes between 2022 and 2023. A decision support system was developed for a bus holding strategy based on a reinforcement learning approach. For the pilots, a user interface enabled supervisors to monitor service and record applied actions. The first pilot tested terminal-based holding on a route affected by missed trips from absenteeism. The analy…

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

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)…

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

Our Home – #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #improv #improvpiano

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Comparative Analysis of Global and Local Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting for Contiguous Spatial Demand Regions
Jiahe Ling, Wei Biao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08214 htt…

Comparative Analysis of Global and Local Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting for Contiguous Spatial Demand Regions
This study evaluates three probabilistic forecasting strategies using LightGBM: global pooling, cluster-level pooling, and station-level modeling across a range of scenarios, from fully homogeneous simulated data to highly heterogeneous real-world Divvy bike-share demand observed during 2023 to 2024. Clustering was performed using the K-means algorithm applied to principal component analysis transformed covariates, which included time series features, counts of nearby transportation infrastruct…

Good Morning #Canada
As the sun comes up over the grain elevator, we discover we are in Saskatchewan for Day #9 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming. And it's flat.... like crazy flat.
Saskatchewan is commonly known as Canada’s breadbasket because of the volume and diversity of crops that they grow. The province had set a target of $20B in exports by 2030 - which was achieved in 2023 with export revenues of $20.2B, placing them at #2 in Canada. The 34K farms in Saskatchewan manage over 40% of Canada’s farmland, and they are likely the top producer of any grain, oilseed, or pulse crop you can think of. For example - Saskatchewan produced 87% of Canada's chickpeas and was responsible for 91% of chickpeas exports. Which tells me Canadians don't really like chickpeas. The province is also a leader in new technology with GPS guided machinery and numerous testing sites for robotic farming. And don't forget the pigs - they exported 2M in 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Bread #Oink
https://www.canadaaction.ca/saskatchewan-farming-facts

Good Morning #Canada
Day #8 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming takes us back east to New Brunswick, which is not that "new" BTW. If it seems like we're jumping around the country in this series, with no logic, well, congratulations, you're paying attention.
New Brunswick's agricultural and agri-food sector reached a record of $1.23 billion in farm cash receipts in 2023, with potatoes, blueberries, maple syrup, and dairy all key products. Within that number lies good and bad news. The province had one of the largest decreases in farm operators in the country, but profits per farm have increased. Blueberry farms increased, and the province is 2nd in Canada in production. In 2024, New Brunswick announced the Agricultural Sustainability Program to assist farmers with reducing tillage, maintaining ponds and wetlands, and protecting pollinator habitat, critical and marginal landscapes, trees, riparian areas and crop management.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Farming
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/95-640-x/2016001/article/14803-eng.htm