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On Website Technicals (2023-03)
Tech updates: reducing storage writes from logging, slow random.

My weekly photo-essay contribution to the blog Balloon Juice.
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/06/17/on-the-road-albatrossity-costa-rica-week-3-flowers-and-butterflies/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Costa Rica — Week 3, Flowers and Butterflies
It’s Albatrossity Monday!  No birbs, but we do get flowers!  Then we have the last of frosty’s 2022 national park trips from 2022 – pssst, frost, is it time to move into 2023?  Anyway, it’s the end of the frosty series for 2022, and the beginning of a series from PaulB.  Endings and beginnings this …

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Yet more journallistic malpractice in NYT coverage of Biden.
Quotes Jodie Evans, a demonstrator against Biden, describing her simply as a "political activist and documentary producer." No mention of the Times's own reporting last August that her husband "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide" & Evans herself "stridently supports China" and works closely with her husband.

How a U.S. Tech Mogul Used Nonprofits to Sow Chinese Propaganda
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

Democrats held their own in the last three cycles in navigating tough Senate races.
They will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024.
Here's a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.
https://www.bus…

Democrats face a tough 2024 Senate map as they aim to protect majority
In 2024, 34 seats will be up for grabs, including 20 currently held by Democrats, 11 held by Republicans, and three currently held by Independents.

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-1…

In 2023 Haalde PVV en GL-PvdA 25% vs 17% van de beschikbare zetels, respectievelijk
In 2024 is dat 19% vs 26%.
Natuurlijk is de één gedaald en de ander gestegen, maar in percentage zetels is de overwinning van GL-PvdA in deze verkiezing groter dan die van de PVV in de vorige verkiezing.

Licht und Schatten am Augsburger Hauptbahnhof
Der Fahrgastverband PRO BAHN hat sich, wie viele Fahrgäste, am 8. Dezember 2023 sehr über die längst überfällige Eröffnung des barrierefreien Augsburger Hauptbahnhofs gefreut.Bei aller Freude bleiben jedoch noch ein paar Wermutstropfen, Baustellen und Schwachstellen, auf die PRO BAHN Schwaben in einer Pressemitteilung hinweist. PRO BAHN stellt fest, dass Fahrgastinformationen und ...

Raiders' Divine Deablo Hoping to Build on Career-Best Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/raiders-divine-deablo-hoping-to-build-on-career-best-season-01j0eqg3483b

Las Vegas Raiders' Divine Deablo hoping to build on a career-best season
Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Divine Deablo had the best season of his career in 2023, and now, he will look to improve on it.

This online map provides information about bathing water locations and their quality for both the latest 2023 season and previous seasons.
The map symbols are colored to reflect the quality status achieved in the most recent season.
The data is presented at two levels:
country (less detailed scales) and bathing water (more detailed scales).
In addition to the 27 EU Member States, the bathing water viewer includes also the data for Albania and Switzerland

State of bathing waters in 2023
We all want to know the quality of 'our' local bathing area, beach or lake, and whether it conforms to EU standards. Below you will find a map viewer that will allow you to view on-line the quality of the bathing water in the around 22 000 coastal beaches and freshwater bathing waters across Europe.

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unve

Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
Gen-3 Alpha allows users to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length.

Yet more journallistic malpractice in NYT coverage of Biden.
Quotes Jodie Evans, a demonstrator against Biden, describing her simply as a "political activist and documentary producer." No mention of the Times's own reporting last August that her husband "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide" & Evans herself "stridently supports China" and works closely with her husband.

How a U.S. Tech Mogul Used Nonprofits to Sow Chinese Propaganda
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Yuichi Masubuchi, Takato Ishida, Yusuke Koide, Takashi Uneyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09741

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Despite many attempts, the relation between fracture and structure of polymer networks is yet to be clarified. For this problem, a recent study for phantom chain simulations [Macromolecules, 56, 9359 (2023)] has demonstrated that the fracture characteristics obtained for polymer networks with various node functionalities and conversion ratios lie on master curves if they are plotted against cycle rank. In this study, we extended the simulation to the effect of prepolymer concentration on the re…

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
Michio Tokuyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05611

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
The non-equilibrium fluctuations observed in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are analyzed from a statistical-dynamical point view. By investigating the data observed around the world which were collected from January 15, 2020 to April 28, 2023 at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/, we first show that the dynamics of the fluctuations is described by a stochastic equation whose stochastic force is a multiplicative type. By employing the time-convolutionless projection-operator method in open syst…

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Yuichi Masubuchi, Takato Ishida, Yusuke Koide, Takashi Uneyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09741

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Despite many attempts, the relation between fracture and structure of polymer networks is yet to be clarified. For this problem, a recent study for phantom chain simulations [Macromolecules, 56, 9359 (2023)] has demonstrated that the fracture characteristics obtained for polymer networks with various node functionalities and conversion ratios lie on master curves if they are plotted against cycle rank. In this study, we extended the simulation to the effect of prepolymer concentration on the re…