2026-02-16 22:40:23
Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html
Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comfrom my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09
Falcons hiring Kevin Stefanski as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978950/2026/01/17/kevin-stefanski-falcons-head-coach/
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comAjit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
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…
Into The Couloir...
(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite …
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
https://
Bei @… lief gestern "Holding Liat" über eine israelische Familie nach dem 7. Oktober. Goßartiger Film.
Liat Beinin Atzili wurde entführt und nach acht Wochen freigelassen, Aviv Atzili ermordet. Liats Vater Yehuda Beinin will Frieden, ihr Sohn Rache.
Der Film bekam letztes Jahr den Berlinale-Dokfilmpreis. Bis Mai in der Mediathek.
🇺🇦 #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
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago,
according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.
The details of who accessed a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office, including the allegation that a foreign hacker was involved, are being reported here for the first …
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Seit Sep. 2023 immer falsch geraten. 🤨
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Dβeβzβeβmβbβeβrβ β2β0β2β5β über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den
Aloe inflorescence, just starting to open. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2023. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #laarboretum #flower #aloe
from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03
The differences are stark. Cyber security strategies:
Biden 2023: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf
Trump 2026:
Gerade passend zur #Ölkrise und #spritpreis Debatten: 1973 fingen manche Tankstellen an Fahrräder zu verkaufen..
Bild aus diesem schönen Bericht:
#AudioEye claims it can find more issues than other #overlay vendors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/au…
RE: https://flipboard.com/@engadget/tech-news-3l37fooaz/-/a-8y293aXPQ5WJhSKN7ycBqA:a:3199686-/0
Except he did... in 2023. But it was never updated once after Space Karen was called out as it was adjusted …
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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@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Voyage rocambolesque ou bienvenu en Mongolie
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2023/02/voyage-rocambolesque-ou-bienvenu-en.html
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…
"Amazon rainforest flipped to carbon source during 2023 extreme drought, study shows"
#AmazonRainforest #Environment
Der @der-postillon.com hat mir eine Pause versüßt
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/03/antworten-sprachnachricht.html
An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, "Freedom of Money", details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/cz-changpeng-zha…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 But Not Tonight
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://djpepusnik.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-but-not-tonight-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mOAeFylUraa4kUB1B9QW3
Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…
In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…
Who Calls 1-800-GAMBLER? Around Big Sports Events, It’s Often Young Men. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/sports-gambling-addition-super-bowl.html
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comAnzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
ISTA - "Gods In Heat" (2026)
New one from this Brooklyn-based, 7-piece psychedelic post-punk disco collective. I really enjoy their LP from 2023, but they keep dropping new singles on BC and they seem to improve with each release.
#music #alternative
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comCisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comspanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Palestinian journalists describe being systematically tortured, abused, beaten, and starved in Israel's prisons between October 2023 and January 2026 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/palestinian-journalists-reco…
The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comSaquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/
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'`,…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comSources: WaPo lost $100M in 2025, after losing ~$100M in 2024 and $77M in 2023; its publisher told staff that expenses surpassed revenue between 2022 and 2025 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…
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@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comAnzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Colts give QB Anthony Richardson permission to seek trade: 2023 top-five pick faces uncertain future
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-anthony-richardson-trade-rumors/
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@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comAnzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen
Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende
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