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Missed deadline… I’m okay with that #beauty https://muz4now.com/2023/missed-deadline-im-okay-with-that

Missed deadline… I’m okay with that
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"A unanimous vote by the Manitoba Legislative Assembly to penalize former Tory premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers for breaking conflict of interest legislation was met with silence from the lawbreakers Wednesday.
Stefanson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday after being fined $18,000, becoming the province’s first premier penalized under the legislation enacted in October 2023."
#canpoli #mbpoli #corruption
https://archive.ph/IJOsF

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5cd37cea-87e7-4648-b85b-f77091dd4558

Sources: Collin Campbell, NPR's podcasting strategy chief since 2023 and a former Gimlet executive editor, is leaving the network to join Apple (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1975703753920532783

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
Scoop: Collin Campbell, NPR’s podcasting strategy chief, is leaving the network. Three sources tell me he’s joining Apple.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

"Why didn't I get the emergency alert?"
Dunno mate. Did you maybe switch off the alerts in 2023 when the Mail provided instructions to do so, amid "Nanny State" criticisms?

Tor-Åge Bringsværd er dŸd, melder VG og NRK. På IKO-forlaget synes vi det var stas å få jobbe med en kjempe i den norske barnelitteraturen – han ga ut fire bŸker her, den siste var Babel i 2023.

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' https://www.pbs.org/newsho…

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy
Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy. Amna Nawaz reports for our series, Art in Action, and our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.

The dispute has been fanned by nationalist sentiment,
compounded by a bitter feud between two powerful politicians:
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for four decades before handing power to his son Hun Manet in 2023,
and Thaksin Shinawatra, the former populist leader of Thailand, whose daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra became prime minister in 2024.
Both former leaders remain highly influential.
On Thursday night, Thaksin said on social media he had…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Come Around and Love Me (6 Music Session, 25 Jul 2023)
#JalenNgonda
https://djmarcusguedes.bandcamp.com/track/jalen-ngonda-come-around-love-me-m-g-beats-re-edit-wgo-style
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FFSlcb55C7pIFcOYapN1b

Seeking Joy
- in spite of all the ruckus, we seek joy -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/seeking-joy-nowplaying/

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Generalizing Brooks' theorem via Partial Coloring is Hard Classically and Locally
Jan Bok, Avinandan Das, Anna Gujgiczer, Nikola Jedli\v{c}kov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16308

Generalizing Brooks' theorem via Partial Coloring is Hard Classically and Locally
We investigate the classical and distributed complexity of \emph{$k$-partial $c$-coloring} where $c=k$, a natural generalization of Brooks' theorem where each vertex should be colored from the palette $\{1,\ldots,c\} = \{1,\ldots,k\}$ such that it must have at least $\min\{k, °(v)\}$ neighbors colored differently. Das, Fraigniaud, and Ros{é}n~[OPODIS 2023] showed that the problem of $k$-partial $(k+1)$-coloring admits efficient centralized and distributed algorithms and posed an open problem …

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

( \(2^{nd}\) announcement)
The #Springer Problem Book for the Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001-2023) is now available in a (slightly less expensive) softcover format! This book, edited by me, J. Gash, R. Gillman, and @… , can be used by stu…

The Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001⁠–2023)
This book gathers problems based on over twenty years of the Indiana College Mathematics Competition, a contest for teams of undergraduates.

No, it's not in aid distribution. It's simply in being alive in an extermination camp.
Or would you people be speaking of the dangers in aid distribution if someone trying to help the jews in Auschwitz ended up in the gas chambers?
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1…

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
Diam Ba, Gorgui Gning, Gandasor Bonyiri Onesiphore Da, Oumar Foly Sow, Gane Samb Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18032 https://

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
The skew normal law has been introduced in Azzalin (1985) as an alternative to adjusting asymmetric data that share important patterns with the normal law. It has been extensively studied. However, there is so much to do in order to catch the diversity and the richness of the investigation of its normal counterpart. The General Jarque-Berra Test (GJBT) has been devised by Lo et al. (2015), Da et al. (2023) for arbitrary laws with at least finite first eight moments, as a generalization of the J…

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4 /CD8 CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Saranya Varakunan, Melissa Stadt, Mohammad Kohandel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19536

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4+/CD8+ CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown remarkable success in hematological malignancies, yet patient responses remain highly variable and the roles of CD4 and CD8 subsets are not fully understood. We present an extended mathematical framework of CAR-T cell dynamics that explicitly models CD4 helper and CD8 cytotoxic lineages and their interactions with tumor antigen burden. Building on the Kirouac et al. (2023) model of antigen-regulated memory, effector, and exhaustion transi…

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Mai 2025 über den #Klimawandel und dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Sharp lower bounds and extremal graphs for the generalized $k$-independence number
Jing Huang, Jiaxin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12563 https://arxiv.o…

Sharp lower bounds and extremal graphs for the generalized $k$-independence number
A vertex set $S$ is a generalized $k$-independent set if the induced subgraph $G[S]$ contains no tree on $k$ vertices. The generalized $k$-independence number $α_k(G)$ is the maximum size of such a set. For a tree $T$ with $n$ vertices, Bock et al. [J. Graph Theory 103 (2023) 661-673] and Li et al. [Taiwanese J. Math. 27 (2023) 647-683] independently showed that $α_3(G)\geq \frac{2}{3}n$ and identified the extremal trees that attain this lower bound. Subsequently, Li and Zhou [Appl. Math. Com…

TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $1.21B, ad revenue down 5%, operating expenses down 9%, and 10M ViX subscribers, up from ~7M at 2023's end (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/televisaunivision-cuts-expense…

TelevisaUnivision Cuts Expenses to Boost Q2 Profit Amid Revenue Dip
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision took a tough hand on operating expenses in a bid to boost second quarter profit even as key revenue fell

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
Yi Zeng, Enmeng Lu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cunqing Huangfu, Jiawei Xie, Yu Chen, Zhengqi Wang, Dongqi Liang, Gongce Cao, Jin Wang, Zizhe Ruan, Xin Guan, Ammar Younas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11546

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
The year 2024 witnessed accelerated global AI governance advancements, marked by strengthened multilateral frameworks and proliferating national regulatory initiatives. This acceleration underscores an unprecedented need to systematically track governance progress--an imperative that drove the launch of the AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) project since 2023. The inaugural AGILE Index, released in February 2024 after assessing 14 countries, established an operational a…

LLM coding is the opposite of DRY
An important principle in software engineering is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself. We recognize that having the same code copied in more than one place is bad for several reasons:
1. It makes the entire codebase harder to read.
2. It increases maintenance burden, since any problems in the duplicated code need to be solved in more than one place.
3. Because it becomes possible for the copies to drift apart if changes to one aren't transferred to the other (maybe the person making the change has forgotten there was a copy) it makes the code more error-prone and harder to debug.
All modern programming languages make it almost entirely unnecessary to repeat code: we can move the repeated code into a "function" or "module" and then reference it from all the different places it's needed. At a larger scale, someone might write an open-source "library" of such functions or modules and instead of re-implementing that functionality ourselves, we can use their code, with an acknowledgement. Using another person's library this way is complicated, because now you're dependent on them: if they stop maintaining it or introduce bugs, you've inherited a problem, but still, you could always copy their project and maintain your own version, and it would be not much more work than if you had implemented stuff yourself from the start. It's a little more complicated than this, but the basic principle holds, and it's a foundational one for software development in general and the open-source movement in particular. The network of "citations" as open-source software builds on other open-source software and people contribute patches to each others' projects is a lot of what makes the movement into a community, and it can lead to collaborations that drive further development. So the DRY principle is important at both small and large scales.
Unfortunately, the current crop of hyped-up LLM coding systems from the big players are antithetical to DRY at all scales:
- At the library scale, they train on open source software but then (with some unknown frequency) replicate parts of it line-for-line *without* any citation [1]. The person who was using the LLM has no way of knowing that this happened, or even any way to check for it. In theory the LLM company could build a system for this, but it's not likely to be profitable unless the courts actually start punishing these license violations, which doesn't seem likely based on results so far and the difficulty of finding out that the violations are happening. By creating these copies (and also mash-ups, along with lots of less-problematic stuff), the LLM users (enabled and encouraged by the LLM-peddlers) are directly undermining the DRY principle. If we see what the big AI companies claim to want, which is a massive shift towards machine-authored code, DRY at the library scale will effectively be dead, with each new project simply re-implementing the functionality it needs instead of every using a library. This might seem to have some upside, since dependency hell is a thing, but the downside in terms of comprehensibility and therefore maintainability, correctness, and security will be massive. The eventual lack of new high-quality DRY-respecting code to train the models on will only make this problem worse.
- At the module & function level, AI is probably prone to re-writing rather than re-using the functions or needs, especially with a workflow where a human prompts it for many independent completions. This part I don't have direct evidence for, since I don't use LLM coding models myself except in very specific circumstances because it's not generally ethical to do so. I do know that when it tries to call existing functions, it often guesses incorrectly about the parameters they need, which I'm sure is a headache and source of bugs for the vibe coders out there. An AI could be designed to take more context into account and use existing lookup tools to get accurate function signatures and use them when generating function calls, but even though that would probably significantly improve output quality, I suspect it's the kind of thing that would be seen as too-baroque and thus not a priority. Would love to hear I'm wrong about any of this, but I suspect the consequences are that any medium-or-larger sized codebase written with LLM tools will have significant bloat from duplicate functionality, and will have places where better use of existing libraries would have made the code simpler. At a fundamental level, a principle like DRY is not something that current LLM training techniques are able to learn, and while they can imitate it from their training sets to some degree when asked for large amounts of code, when prompted for many smaller chunks, they're asymptotically likely to violate it.
I think this is an important critique in part because it cuts against the argument that "LLMs are the modern compliers, if you reject them you're just like the people who wanted to keep hand-writing assembly code, and you'll be just as obsolete." Compilers actually represented a great win for abstraction, encapsulation, and DRY in general, and they supported and are integral to open source development, whereas LLMs are set to do the opposite.
[1] to see what this looks like in action in prose, see the example on page 30 of the NYTimes copyright complaint against OpenAI (#AI #GenAI #LLMs #VibeCoding

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

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

Minimal Velocity #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Minimal Velocity #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now