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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).

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Golang's weird little iterators.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/12/16/rangefuncs/#fnref:tooling
saved 2024-12-17

Go's Weird Little Iterators · mcyoung

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

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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…

Healing Vibe – happy inspirations of all sorts #healing #inspiration #inspirations #musician

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

I rode my bike 600 miles in 2024 and it's June 1st, 2025 and I'm over 500 miles for this year!
My goal for 2025 is 1,000 miles which I think is still doable as long as I don't have any injuries (sigh) and nothing else goes wrong.
#bikeTooter

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…

Real-time prediction of geomagnetic storms using Solar Orbiter as a far upstream solar wind monitor
Emma E. Davies (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria), Eva Weiler (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria), Christian M\"ostl (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria), Timothy S. Horbury (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, South Kensington …

Real-time prediction of geomagnetic storms using Solar Orbiter as a far upstream solar wind monitor
We present the first real-time predictions of coronal mass ejection (CME) magnetic structure and resulting geomagnetic impact at Earth for two events using far-upstream observations from Solar Orbiter during March 2024. Despite the large heliocentric distance between measurement at Solar Orbiter and L1 (0.53 and 0.60 AU), our predicted magnetic structures closely matched subsequent observations. Geomagnetic index predictions were made in real-time with 7 and 15 hour lead-times, presenting a lar…

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 …

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Panthers' Xavier Legette ejected after fight; Dave Canales admonishes WR for putting team at 'disadvantage'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pa…

A class number problem for imaginary cyclic number fields of 2-power degrees
St\'ephane R. Louboutin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10563 https://arxiv.org…

A class number problem for imaginary cyclic number fields of 2-power degrees
In 2024, M. K. Ram proved that the class number of an imaginary cyclic quartic number field is never equal to a prime $p\equiv 3\pmod 4$. Here we greatly generalize this result to the case of the non-quadratic imaginary cyclic number fields of $2$-power degrees and not necessarily prime class numbers.

On the regularization property of Levenberg-Marquardt method with Singular Scaling for nonlinear inverse problems
Rafaela Filippozzi, Everton Boos, Douglas S. Gon\c{c}alves, Fermin S. V. Baz\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00190

On the regularization property of Levenberg-Marquardt method with Singular Scaling for nonlinear inverse problems
Recently, in Applied Mathematics and Computation 474 (2024) 128688, a Levenberg-Marquardt method (LMM) with Singular Scaling was analyzed and successfully applied in parameter estimation problems in heat conduction where the use of a particular singular scaling matrix (semi-norm regularizer) provided approximate solutions of better quality than those of the classic LMM. Here we propose a regularization framework for the Levenberg-Marquardt method with Singular Scaling (LMMSS) applied to nonline…

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

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Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

Mit Roger und dem Petermännle im Tonbachtal
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2024/mit-roger-und-dem-petermaennle-im-tonbachtal

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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...

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

52 responses.
Numbers of participants:
— 13 in the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey
— 12 in the 2025 Laptop and Desktop Workgroup survey
— 20 in the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.
36 of 52 found the poll in Reddit.(I inadvertently created a fourth choice by changing "The" to "the".)

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
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Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

BWT for string collections
Davide Cenzato, Zsuzsanna Lipt\'ak, Nadia Pisanti, Giovanna Rosone, Marinella Sciortino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01092 htt…

BWT for string collections
We survey the different methods used for extending the BWT to collections of strings, following largely [Cenzato and Lipták, CPM 2022, Bioinformatics 2024]. We analyze the specific aspects and combinatorial properties of the resulting BWT variants and give a categorization of publicly available tools for computing the BWT of string collections. We show how the specific method used impacts on the resulting transform, including the number of runs, and on the dynamicity of the transform with resp…

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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.

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

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Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
https://youtu.be/3-BvMcqEc98?si=_OkQjEKADeva4QD5
saved 2024-10-08

Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP) A Multi-Wavelength Search for the Effects of Metallicity on the Cepheid Distance Scale. Part II: Theoretical Models and Synthetic Spectra
Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, Kayla Owens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01188

Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP) A Multi-Wavelength Search for the Effects of Metallicity on the Cepheid Distance Scale. Part II: Theoretical Models and Synthetic Spectra
This is the second of two papers exploring the effects of metallicity on the multi-wavelength properties of Cepheids in terms of their multi-wavelength period-luminosity (PL) relations, impacting their use as extragalactic distance indicators, underpinning one of the most popular paths to estimating of the expansion rate of the Universe, Ho. In Paper I (Madore & Freedman 2024) we presented five tests for the influence of metallicity on galactic and extragalactic Cepheid PL relations, spanning n…

Worst to first for 49ers? Ranking 8 last-place teams’ chances to win division in 2025 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/worst-first-49ers-ranking-8-last-place-teams-chances-win-division-2025

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Mengqi Wang, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20199

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion recognition. Inspired by the SLT 2024 GenSER Challenge, this study investigates approaches to improving conversational emotion recognition (CER) by LLMs. Specifically, we explore how to retrieve high-quality examples in in-context learning (ICL) to enhance CER…

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What is systems programming, really?
https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
saved 2024-10-10

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

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…

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Critical analysis of the Meshtastic protocol.
https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/
saved 2025-06-16

Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol - disk91.com - the IoT blog
Analysis of the Mestastic LoRa mesh solution in details, what's good and wrong with that communication solution.

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

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Joseph Siebor, Svetlana Tlupova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00156

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Boundary integral equation methods are widely used in the solution of many partial differential equations. The kernels that appear in these surface integrals are nearly singular when evaluated near the boundary, and straightforward numerical integration produces inaccurate results. In Beale and Tlupova (Adv. Comput. Math, 2024), an extrapolated regularization method was proposed to accurately evaluate the nearly singular single and double-layer surface integrals for harmonic potentials or Stoke…

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Post-mortem of network outage affecting OpenStreetMap.org in December 2024.
https://operations.osmfoundation.org/2025/02/15/post-mortem.html
saved 2025-02-15

Cowboys breakout star cracks top-25 defensive tackle rankings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-breakout-star-cracks-top-25-defensive-tackle-rankings

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“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

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When should a Java JIT compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand-garbage-collection-barriers.html
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👨‍💻 Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074).

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aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

from my link log —
Why is my Chumby’s CPU usage always 100%?
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/
saved 2025-01-13

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The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
saved 2025-05-21

from my link log —
The Manchester Compiler Compiler and CPL: reflections of a user 50 years on.
https://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/atlas/docs/CC_Reflections-v4 final.pdf
saved 2024-11-06

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How to avoid out-of-thin-air atomics without really trying.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3064r2.pdf
saved 2025-07-15

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Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
saved 2024-10-20 https://dot…