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I’ve Got Some Explaining To Do #heart #inspiration #recording

I've Got Some Explaining To Do
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Texans to sign Jalen Mills to reinforce secondary with C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Jimmie Ward sidelined, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-…

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Favourite - Reading 2024
#FontainesDC
https://open.spotify.com/track/27w0RH5IDt6xU3B2j7QOuy

#Regenwald.org Jahresbericht 2024. https://www.regenwald.org/nl/4929/1/636186989

„Leben in Harmonie mit der Natur“
Seit kurzem ist unser Jahresbericht 2024 online. Auf 37 Seiten legen wir Ihnen dar, was wir und unsere Partnerorganisationen im vergangenen Jahr geleistet haben, um die Regenwälder zu bewahren und Indigene zu unterstützen.

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06649 https://

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
This paper extends previous work on echo chambers modeled by an Ising-like system at zero temperature (1. Echo Chambers and random Polarization, Symmetry 2024, 16(12), 1566). There, polarization emerged as a spontaneous symmetry-breaking process with a randomly selected direction. Here using a mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo simulations I show that this mechanism is highly vulnerable to minimal distortions. An external symmetry-breaking field, even vanishingly small, suffices to impose a gl…

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Microsoft launches a $19.99 per month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, bundling Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions along with cloud storage (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/microsoft-365-premium-bundle-ai-copilot.html

Microsoft launches AI and productivity software bundle for consumers
The software company introduced Copilot Pro at $20 per month in early 2024.

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching L\'evy processes
Runjia Luo, Yan-Xia Ren, Renming Song, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25917

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching Lévy processes
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of supercritical branching Markov processes $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ whose spatial motions are Lévy processes with regularly varying tails. Recently, Ren et al. [Appl. Probab. 61 (2024)] studied the weak convergence of the extremes of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$. In this paper, we establish the large deviation of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ as well as some almost sure convergence results of the maximum of $\mathbb{X}_t$.

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

»Heute würde diese Aufdringlichkeit als eine klare Grenzüberschreitung gewertet werden und könnte strafrechtlich verfolgt werden. Doch in den 1950er-Jahren war sexuelle Belästigung noch keine Straftat, es war noch nicht mal ein gängiger Begriff.«
Aus: Annegret Braun — Die Sekretärin (2024)

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Shubham Sharma, Sneha Tuli, Narendra Badam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21377

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming AI across industries, but their development and deployment remain complex. This survey reviews 16 key challenges in building and using LLMs and examines how these challenges are addressed by two state-of-the-art models with unique approaches: OpenAI's closed source GPT-4o (May 2024 update) and DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2025), a large open source Mixture-of-Experts model. Through this comparison, we showcase the trade-offs between closed source models …

Nikki Haley’s campaign manager warned influential donors Tuesday that the GOP would lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives
if Donald Trump is the party’s presidential nominee,
leaning into concerns about down-ballot races
as some anti-Trump Republicans view the fight over Congress as a better investment than the presidential race.

Haley camp seeks to convince top donors that Trump would cost GOP the House
The move marked the latest effort by a campaign many Republicans have written off to hit back against the overwhelming GOP favorite.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

Après la victoire relative de la gauche aux législatives que Macron a souhaité en 2024, Macron a refusé de nommer une première ministre de gauche. Il en a nommé trois de droite qui on échoué tous. C’est l’acharnement thérapeutique.

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
Abhilash R. Sarwade, Ankur Kushwaha, M. C. Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah, Smrati Verma, Vaishali Sharan, K. Sankarasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26292

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
The Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) on board India's Aditya-L1 mission was launched on 2 September 2023 and commenced solar observations on 13 December 2023 following successful aperture cover deployment. Operating from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, SoLEXS has been providing continuous Sun-as-a-star soft X-ray spectroscopy across 2-22 keV with 170 eV resolution at 5.9 keV and 1-second temporal cadence since 6 January 2024. The instrument employs two Silicon Drift Detectors with …

Spoiled 4 Us All
- so few ... spoil it for us all -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/spoiled-4-us-all-nowplaying/

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
Chandradew Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00697 https://

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
This study presents a unified, distribution-aware, and complexity-informed framework for understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market, using 34 years (1990 to 2024) of Nifty 50 index data. Addressing a key gap in the literature, we demonstrate that the price to earnings ratio, as a valuation metric, may probabilistically map return distributions across investment horizons spanning from days to decades. Return profiles exhibit strong asymmetry. One-year returns show a 74 percent p…

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals #musicianresources #musiciantips https://

Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye #BCI

Confirmed: another big jump in atmospheric CO2 concentration. The June average at Mauna Loa was 429.6 ppm, that's 2.7 ppm more than last year!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

A Russian YouTuber posts an unboxing of the alleged M5 iPad Pro, which looks identical to the M4 model; the same YouTuber leaked the M4 MacBook Pro in 2024 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/30/leaked-unboxing-video-reveals-unann…

Leaked unboxing video reveals unannounced M5 iPad Pro in full - 9to5Mac
Remember last year when an unboxing video of the M4 MacBook Pro leaked before it was even announced? Well, it’s...

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durc…

Former Broncos WR Josh Reynolds was victim of mistaken identity in 2024 Denver shooting incident

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

There’s a specific kind of cognitive dissonance that comes from watching a woman of color who seemed to have been intellectually reared in progressive circles endear herself to this iteration of the Republican Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

The One Thing You Need to Know to Understand Usha Vance
Usha Vance isn’t a mystery.

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Tri Nguyen, Chirag Modi, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10652

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Merger trees track the hierarchical assembly of dark matter halos across cosmic time and serve as essential inputs for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. However, conventional methods for constructing merger trees rely on ad-hoc assumptions and are unable to incorporate environmental information. Nguyen et al. (2024) introduced FLORAH, a generative model based on recurrent neural networks and normalizing flows, for modeling main progenitor branches of merger trees. In this work, we exten…

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11162 https://

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{Ω(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized protocols cannot be efficiently "derandomized" using Equality oracles. This improves on several recent results and answers a question from the survey of Hatami and Hatami (SIGACT News 2024). It also gives a significantly simpler and quantitatively superior proof of the…

Raiders remain in top 10 of NFL’s most valuable teams https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-remain-in-top-10-of-nfls-most-valuable-teams-3421298/

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Marcus J. Grote, Omar Lakkis, Carina S. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11193 https://

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Starting from a recent a posteriori error estimator for the finite element solution of the wave equation with explicit time-stepping [Grote, Lakkis, Santos, 2024], we devise a space-time adaptive strategy which includes both time evolving meshes and local time-stepping [Diaz, Grote, 2009] to overcome any overly stringent CFL stability restriction on the time-step due to local mesh refinement. Moreover, at each time-step the adaptive algorithm monitors the accuracy thanks to the error indicators…

FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court https://therecord.media/fcc-data-breach-reporting-rule-held-up-appeals-court

State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2024 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
F. Boivin, M. Petrescu, Z. Berkson-Korenberg, K. W. West L. N. Pfeiffer, G. Gervais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09588

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
In this work, making use of time-resolved in situ Joule heating of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Corbino geometry, we report bulk thermal conductance measurements for the ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for electron temperatures ranging from 20 to 150 mK. We compare our findings with a recent study by Melcer et al. [Nature 625, 489 (2024)] that observed a finite bulk thermal conductivity \k{appa}xx in FQH states. In spite of the large size difference an…

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

"Brazil may add 36.5 GW of solar by 2029, says grid operator"
#Brazil #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Brazil may add 36.5 GW of solar by 2029, says grid operator
Brazil’s installed solar capacity is expected to rise from 51.7 GW in December 2024 to 88.2 GW by the end of 2029, according to the national grid operator’s 2025–29 Energy Operation Plan.

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY – #IndieMusician #indiemusic #musicianresources #musiciantips

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Vincent Koeman, Sanne Romp, Sanne J. W. Willems, Julia Cramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13010

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Quantum technologies are seen as transformative, with a potential to revolutionize fields like drug discovery and machine learning. Public engagement is crucial to align these developments with societal needs and foster acceptance. This study measured the impact of an exhibit about quantum technologies at the 2024 Lowlands music festival (n = 812). Pre- and post-surveys assessed changes in attitude, concern, interest and subjective knowledge. Results showed an increase in subjective knowledge b…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

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

Der Ausbau der #Windenergie in Deutschland hat im ersten Halbjahr 2025 deutlich zugelegt.
Mit 405 neuen Onshore-Anlagen und 2.157 MW installierter Leistung wurde der Zubau gegenüber 2024 mehr als verdoppelt.
Treiber sind beschleunigte Genehmigungen und höhere Ausschreibungszuschläge.

Ausbau Windenergie: Deutschland verdoppelt neue Windenergieleistung an Land im ersten Halbjahr 2025
Münster – Der Ausbau der Windenergie in Deutschland hat sich im ersten Halbjahr 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich beschleunigt. Dies geht aus einer ersten vorläufigen Auswertung von Daten des Marktstammdatenregisters (MaStR) der Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) durch das Internationale Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) in Münster (Datenstand: 01. Juli 2025) hervor.

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY – #IndieMusician #indiemusic #musicianresources #musiciantips

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Healing Harp – plucking the strings of my heart #healing #inspiration #musicianresources #musiciantips

Healing Harp - plucking the strings of my heart
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY – #IndieMusician #indiemusic #musicianresources #musiciantips

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now