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from my link log —
Boolean blindness.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness/
saved 2024-09-21

Boolean Blindness
I hate Booleans!  But isn’t everything “just bits”?  Aren’t computers built from gates?  And aren’t gates just the logical connectives?  How can a Computer Scientist p…

Every $1 in NIH funding in 2024 generated $2.56 in economic activity (PDF):
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UMR_NIH-Role-in-Sustaining-US-Economy-FY2024-2025-Update.…

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hao Li, Emad Fallahzadeh, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13538

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Although Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-4, are increasingly used in domains like finance and software engineering, reliance on textual interfaces limits these models' real-world interaction. To address this, FM providers introduced tool calling-triggering a proliferation of frameworks with distinct tool interfaces. In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize this tool ecosystem, which has become the de facto standard with over eight million weekly SD…

Skoro o rozwoju mowa… nie ma lepszego symbolu niż metalowe drzewo na środku kamiennego placu.
Wieleń, lipiec 2024.
#photorun #photorun16 @…

from my link log —
Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
https://tweag.io/blog/2024-04-25-nix-protocol-in-rust/
saved 2024-05-06

Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
We re-implemented the nix remote protocol, declaratively

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Cowboys' Dak Prescott plummets out of NFL executive's golden graces in latest ranking https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/14/cowboys-dak-prescott-espn-rankings-qb/85200046007/…

Vasthouden aan Microsoft 365 is geen natuurwet - iBestuur
https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/vasthouden-aan-microsoft-365-is-geen-natuurwet/
Er is nog een lange weg te gaan, maar de 1e conclusie is een mooie opsteker en de 3e conclusie geeft ee…

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

from my link log —
What is systems programming, really?
https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
saved 2024-10-10

"Lopettaneiden yritysten suureen määrään vaikuttanee lainsäädännön muutos, jonka mukaan vuoden 2025 alusta alkaen pienet yritykset eivät ole enää oikeutettuja arvonlisäveron kevennykseen”, Veistämö toteaa. "
#hallitus #yritykset

Lopettaneiden yritysten määrä kasvoi edelleen voimakkaasti tammi-maaliskuussa | Tilastokeskus
Vuoden 2025 ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä toimintansa aloitti lähes 11 000 yritystä. Samaan aikaan toimintansa lopetti runsaat 21 000 yritystä, kun vuoden 2024 tammi-maaliskuussa lopettaneita yrityksiä oli noin 12 700

Control How Your Content Is Used for AI Training With Cloudflare (Cloudflare Blog, 1 July 2024)
#MediaLit

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf, and allowing targeted blocking of AI crawling on sites that serve ads.

Went ahead and wrote up a quick post about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Linux, HOTAS, and `udev` which explains how to get everything working and running under Linux.
https://blog.jamesthebard.net/posts/microsoft-flight-simulator/

Solar Surface Magnetic Field Simulation from 2010 to 2024 and Anomalous Southern Poleward Flux Transport in Cycle 24
Ruihui Wang, Jie Jiang, Yukun Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01416

Solar Surface Magnetic Field Simulation from 2010 to 2024 and Anomalous Southern Poleward Flux Transport in Cycle 24
The solar surface magnetic field is fundamental for modeling the coronal magnetic field, studying the solar dynamo, and predicting solar cycle strength. We perform a continuous simulation of the surface magnetic field from 2010 to 2024, covering solar cycle 24 and the ongoing cycle 25, using the surface flux transport model with assimilated observed active regions (ARs) as the source. The simulation reproduces the evolution of the axial dipole strength, polar field reversal timing, and magnetic…

Gr\"obner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $\lambda$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-\lambda\}$
H. Alhussein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01614

Gröbner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $λ$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-λ\}$
It is known that if $A$ is a finite-dimensional unital algebra equipped with a Rota-Baxter operator $R$ of weight $λ$, then spectrum of $R$ is a subset of $\{0,-λ\}$. We are interested on finding all consequences of the Rota-Baxter relation and the relation of the form $R^k(R+λ{\rm id})^l = 0$. In 2024, H.~Qiu, S. Zheng, Y. Dan solved this problem for $k = l = 1$ and $λ\neq0$. We find a Gröbner-Shirshov basis of the ideal generated by these two relations in general case.

Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-ban…

Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Media JV Files For Bankruptcy, Sues Partner Trinity Broadcasting For Breach Of Contract
Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth-based JV Merit Street Media filed for Chapter 11 and sued business partner Trinity Broadcasting for breach of contract that destroyed it new network pushed it into bankruptcy.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

How the US government launched a revamped online system in September 2024 to simplify passport renewal, which is already handling nearly 50% of all renewals (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/us-passport-o

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Dont Make Me Call Her
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Don’t Make Me Call Her | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Dont Make Me Call Her Host: Grace Lam Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Chats & Interviews First Episode: 2024 What can a former Vogue fashion editor talk about? Fashion? Nah—way more!

Eagles RB Saquon Barkley's reverse hurdle graces cover of 'Madden NFL 26' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-rb-saquon-barkley-s-reverse-hurdle-graces-cover-of-madden-nfl-26

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
Mina Dalirrooyfard, Konstantin Makarychev, Slobodan Mitrovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01830

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
We present a new Correlation Clustering algorithm for a dynamic setting where nodes are added one at a time. In this model, proposed by Cohen-Addad, Lattanzi, Maggiori, and Parotsidis (ICML 2024), the algorithm uses database queries to access the input graph and updates the clustering as each new node is added. Our algorithm has the amortized update time of $O_ε(\log^{O(1)}(n))$. Its approximation factor is $20+\varepsilon$, which is a substantial improvement over the approximation factor of t…

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Yuanyue Pan, Renxin Xu, Yong Chen, Mingyu Ge, Yue Huang, Shumei Jia, Xiaobo Li, Liming Song, Jinlu Qu, Shu Zhang, Lian Tao, Hua Feng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Maurizio Falanga
https:…

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5$-$90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spi…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

from my link log —
Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX.
https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/
saved 2024-10-12 https://

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Peijin Zhang, Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Xingyao Chen, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D'Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jaco…

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Measuring plasma parameters in the upper solar corona and inner heliosphere is challenging because of the region's weakly emissive nature and inaccessibility for most in situ observations. Radio imaging of broadened and distorted background astronomical radio sources during solar conjunction can provide unique constraints for the coronal material along the line of sight. In this study, we present radio spectral imaging observations of the Crab Nebula (Tau A) from June 9 to June 22, 2024 when it…

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
Gerald Dugan, Andrew J. Lankford, Benno List, Shinichiro Michizono, Tatsuya Nakada, Marc Ross, Hiroshi R. Sakai, Steinar Stapnes, Nobuhiro Terunuma, Nicholas Walker, Akira Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

from my link log —
Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries, and how to fix them.
https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html
saved 2024-05-28

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
GVD Collaboration, V. A. Allakhverdyan, A. D. Avrorin, A. V. Avrorin, V. M. Aynutdinov, Z. Be\v{n}u\v{s}ov\'a, I. A. Belolaptikov, E. A. Bondarev, I. V. Borina, N. M. Budnev, V. A. Chadymov, A. S. Chepurnov, V. Y. Dik, A. N. Dmitrieva, G. V. Domogatsky, A. A. Doroshenko, R. Dvornick\'y, A. N. Dyachok, Zh. -A. M. Dzhilkibaev, E. Eckerov\'a, T. …

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
We present an updated measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux using Baikal-GVD cascade data collected between April 2018 to March 2024. In this period, the detector grew from 15% to 55% of its baseline cubic kilometer configuration. The diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux is detected with a statistical significance of 5.1 $σ$. Assuming a single power law model of the astrophysical neutrino flux with identical contribution from each neutrino flavor, the following best-fit paramet…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Favourite (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/favourite
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oG9qhZ0UaQEoUGJJVXh1U

from my link log —
Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
saved 2024-04-25

👨‍💻 Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074).

from my link log —
Prequal: Load is not what you should balance.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wydrowski
saved 2024-12-15

from my link log —
A non-uniform quasirandom number generator for games.
https://taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/quasi-random-dist
saved 2024-08-15

A Quasi-Random Number Generator
I decided to implement a non-uniform random number generator for use in video games. The purpose of the technique is produce random events that are more consistent than a uniform distribution, similar to stratified sampling.

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…