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Last year I raised the idea of Open Source Quality Institute: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
Today, I’m wondering if anyone has tried to launch an Open-Source-Maintainer guild or union or whatever? It could set rates and draft contracts…

OSQI

aus der reihe "lebensnahe forschung" heute: "A Transfer of Language and Culture: German Bread and Pastries and Their Names in Kosovo". https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2024-0014 🍞🥐🥖🥯🥪🥨🫓🙃

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/wisp

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app | TechCrunch
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

Climatology of Mars Topside Ionosphere during Solar Cycles 24 and 25 using MAVEN Dataset of 2015-2024
Lot Ram, Chanchal Singh, Diptiranjan Rout, Aadarsh Raj Sharma, Sumanta Sarkhel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02368

Climatology of Mars Topside Ionosphere during Solar Cycles 24 and 25 using MAVEN Dataset of 2015-2024
The Mars ambient space environment evolves with the varying solar activity. Understanding the Martian space environment, particularly the topside ionosphere across different phases of Solar Cycles (SC) 24 \& 25 remains a key research gap in planetary ionospheric science. In this study, we utilized the NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission data (150-500 km) from Martian years 32-38 (2015-2024) during solar quiet-time. This study investigated the behavior of topside ionosphe…

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason, Roberta Tripodi, Marco Chiaberge, Stefan Schuldt, Chris J. Willott, Yechi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01372

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
We report the detection of Ly$α$ in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad Ly$α$ emission (FWHM $= 1540 \pm 260$ km/s) near the systemic velocity, which suggests a large ionizing bubble considering that the universe is almost fully neutral at the redshift. Through Ly$α$ line-shape modeling assuming a Stromgren sphere, we find a large bubble radius, $R_b = 1.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ pMpc, and a mod…

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

What's occurring?
Joy Behar says
Gavin Newsom and Stacey Abrams
Presidential ticket is 'Lush' for 2024
https://youtu.be/SrBhrcwRnnY

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden.

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Von #umverkehR @…
Volkswillen respektieren: Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau.
Die Ablehnung des Autobahnausbaus vom 24. November 2024 war der Wendepunkt in der Schweizer

Petition Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau
Wir fordern den Bundesrat auf, den Volkswillen zu respektieren und die Schweizer Klimaziele zu erreichen. Der Autobahnausbau muss endgültig gestoppt und die Gelder aus dem Strassenfonds in die Mobilitätswende investiert werden.

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
Amarendra Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23297 https://a…

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
This paper introduces a novel Proxy-Enhanced Correlated Random Effects Double Machine Learning (P-CRE-DML) framework to estimate causal effects in panel data with non-linearities and unobserved heterogeneity. Combining Double Machine Learning (DML, Chernozhukov et al., 2018), Correlated Random Effects (CRE, Mundlak, 1978), and lagged variables (Arellano & Bond, 1991) and innovating within the CRE-DML framework (Chernozhukov et al., 2022; Clarke & Polselli, 2025; Fuhr & Papies, 2024), we apply P…

Aaron Rodgers readies for likely last season with Pittsburgh Steelers: Top 10 moments of QB's legendary career

https://www.cbssports.com/…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

VOTE: Which Northeast Florida high school boys basketball champion is best since 2000? https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2025/07/24/jacksonville-high-schoo…

Variational hydrodynamics of the classical Yukawa one-component plasma
Daniels Krimans, Hanno K\"ahlert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23006 https://

Variational hydrodynamics of the classical Yukawa one-component plasma
We consider a recently developed variational approach to the hydrodynamics of strongly coupled plasmas [D. Krimans and S. Putterman, Phys. Fluids 36, 037131 (2024)] and extend it to the Yukawa one-component plasma. This approach generalizes the ordinary hydrodynamic equations to finite length scales by explicitly including terms that depend on the pair distribution function. After discussing the form of the Lagrangian, we derive equations of motion and explicit formulas for the momentum and ene…

"Tämän vuoden alussa perusterveydenhuollon maksuja nostettiin kuitenkin 22,5 prosenttia ja erikoissairaanhoidossa 45 prosenttia. Vuonna 2024 maksuja oli korotettu jo 20 prosenttia."
#sote #terveydenhuolto #hallitus

Asiakasmaksujen perintä johtaa ulosottoihin
Helsingissä ulosottoon päätyi yli 50 000 maksua, eniten hammashoidon ja vanhusten hoidon maksuja.

Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

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

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
Joshua Z. Sobel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13083

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we demonstrate the first approximate counting algorithm in the CongestedClique for a wide range of problems. Most interestingly, we present an algorithm for approximating the number of $q$-colorings of a graph within $ε$-multiplicative error, when $q>αΔ$ for any…

Eine Minute der entspannenden Magie wasservermalbarer Aquarellstifte für euch. So wird mancher #buntfug #wandklex geboren.
(Archivvideo von Februar 2024 - bin ich gerade drüber gestolpert, hab ich glaub ich noch gar nicht online gezeigt.)
#birds #watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #art #artShop #fediart #mastoart #creativeToots

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
L\^e V\v{a}n Th\`anh, Nguyen Ngoc Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17061

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
This paper establishes a non-uniform Berry--Esseen bound for non-normal approximation using Stein's method. The main theorem generalizes the result of the authors in [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2024] to the context of non-normal approximation. As an application of the main result, we derive non-uniform Berry--Esseen bounds in non-central limit theorems for the magnetization in the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model. These extend some existing results in the literature, i…