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Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

Who was the Greater Lansing boys high school coach of year in 2024-25? https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/07/07/vote-greater-lansing-boys-coach-year-2024-25/84448877007/

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 226 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29774 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Sebastiao Rosalino, Ant\'onio Curado, Fl\'avio L. Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03214 h…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Brexit, a global pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and record inflation - few legislative bodies have faced such a cascade of shocks as the European Parliament did during its 9th term (2019-2024). Using the Bipartite Configuration Model and a set of network statistics, this research explores how multi-polarization was characterized during this term by constructing and analyzing co-voting networks across all legislative subjects and within specific legislative subjects. The results cont…

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

"Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers

Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom
Over 10,000 badgers were culled in 2024 under unlawfully issued licences, yet Natural England remains silent on the upcoming 2025 supplementary culls due to begin on 1 June.

An interview with Strava CEO Michael Martin on Athlete Intelligence, the premium AI "coach" introduced in 2024 that has alienated experienced users, and more (Haley Zimmerman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Yen Jui Chang, Wei-Ting Wang, Yun-Yuan Wang, Chen-Yu Liu, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Ching-Ray Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03963

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Financial markets are noisy yet contain a latent graph-theoretic structure that can be exploited for superior risk-adjusted returns. We propose a quantum stochastic walk (QSW) optimizer that embeds assets in a weighted graph: nodes represent securities while edges encode the return-covariance kernel. Portfolio weights are derived from the walk's stationary distribution. Three empirical studies support the approach. (i) For the top 100 S\&P 500 constituents over 2016-2024, six scenario portfolio…

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 197 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29803 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

Giants TE Theo Johnson was in his 'groove' before season-ending injury, feels 'huge difference' in Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-te-theo-johnson-was-in-his-groove-before-season-ending-…

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GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (Financial Times)

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic
Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison

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Disturbing news about the $d=2+ε$ expansion
The $O(N)$ Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM) in $d=2+ε$ has long been conjectured to describe the same conformal field theory (CFT) as the Wilson-Fisher (WF) $O(N)$ fixed point obtained from the $λ(ϕ^2)^2$ model in $d=4-ε$. In this work, we put this conjecture into question, building on the recent observation [Jones (2024)] that the NLSM CFT possesses a protected operator with dimension $N-1$, which is instead absent in the WF $O(N)$ CFT. For $N=3$, we investigate the possibility of lifting thi…

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Detection of "diffuse" coronal He I 1083 during the April 8 2024 Solar Eclipse: evidence for terrestrial atmospheric scattering origin
Strong He I 1083 nm atomic line signals have been previously measured during total solar eclipses at coronal heights above the lunar limb. This rather unexpected measurement has kindled a discussion about the hypothesized presence of significant amounts of neutral helium at coronal conditions. We performed spectroscopic observations of the He I 1083 nm spectroscopic region with the newly built CHEESE instrument during the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse to test the presence of He I 1083 in t…

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
L. Bergamaschi, A. Martinez, J. W. Pearson, A. Potschka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02816

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
We develop eigenvalue bounds for symmetric, block tridiagonal multiple saddle-point linear systems, preconditioned with block diagonal matrices. We extend known results for $3 \times 3$ block systems [Bradley and Greif, IMA J.\ Numer. Anal. 43 (2023)] and for $4 \times 4$ systems [Pearson and Potschka, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 44 (2024)] to an arbitrary number of blocks. Moreover, our results generalize the bounds in [Sogn and Zulehner, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 39 (2018)], developed for an arbitrary numb…

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

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Ching-Fang Li, Mary Wootters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00183 https://arxiv…

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Consider the problem of computing quantized linear functions with only a few queries. Formally, given $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^k$, our goal is to encode $\mathbf{x}$ as $\mathbf{c} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n > k$, so that for any $\mathbf{w} \in A^k$, $\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x}$ can be computed using at most $\ell$ queries to $\mathbf{c}$. Here, $A$ is some finite set; in this paper we focus on the case where $|A| = 2$. Prior work \emph{(Ramkumar, Raviv, and Tamo, Trans. IT, 2024)} ha…

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
Siddharth Gavhale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04859 https…

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
This study presents a comparative analysis of Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) performance in India's Nifty 50 index over a 22-year period (2003--2024), focusing on the timing of investments -- specifically, the first trading day (FTD) of each month versus the monthly expiry day of Futures and Options (EXP). The research establishes, through mathematical validation, that SIP returns are independent of the invested amount. Leveraging historical index data, the study finds that SIPs timed on F\&O…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Miroslav Broz, Fernando V. Roig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00753 https://ar…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a five-dimensional space of proper orbital elements: semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, proper nodal longitude, and proper perihelion longitude. The proper longitudes were calculated for various times in the past. Any convergence of these angles at times t < …

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.

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
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Decay of correlation for edge colorings when $q>3Δ$
We examine various perspectives on the decay of correlation for the uniform distribution over proper $q$-edge colorings of graphs with maximum degree $Δ$. First, we establish the coupling independence property when $q\ge 3Δ$ for general graphs. Together with the work of Chen et al. (2024), this result implies a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for counting the number of proper $q$-edge colorings. Next, we prove the strong spatial mixing property on trees, provided that $…

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
Kevin Coulembier, Johannes Flake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02722

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
In previous work (Coulembier--Flake 2024), the authors conjectured that the tensor product of an arbitrary finite-dimensional modular representation of an elementary abelian $p$-group with the biggest non-projective restricted Steinberg $SL_2$-module is a restricted tilting module. We showed that the validity of the conjecture would have interesting implications in the theory of tensor categories in positive characteristic, in particular, with respect to the classification of incompressible sym…

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All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Digging My Way Out
#AngryAmbient #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-wa

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Die Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land blickt auf ein erfolgreiches Jahr zurück.
2024 gingen drei neue Bürger-#Solaranlagen ans Netz, das Bürger-#Windrad #Kammerberg produzier…

Lokale Energiewende in Bürgerhand - Energiegenossenschaft zufrieden mit Jahresbilanz
Sehr zufrieden sind die Vorstände der Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land (BEG-FS) mit ihrer Bilanz zum Jahr 2024. Nur eine Zahl lag unter den Prognosen.

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Die einen sagen so, die anderen sagen so.

Jason Pierre-Paul training for return to NFL, says it would be 'dope' to play for Giants again

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jason-p

Nachdem eben schon zwei gutgelaunte Schornsteinfeger bei mir waren, ist heute sicher ein guter Tag um die Steuererklärungen für 2024 erfolgreich fertig zu machen.

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China https://phys.org/news/2025-06-people-severe-southwest-china.html
When rain, snow and soil align: The triple threat behind 2024's deadly central Asian floods

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China
Flooding in China's southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday, as a collapsed bridge forced the dramatic rescue of a truck driver left dangling over the edge.

from my link log —
The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
saved 2024-11-25

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

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

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

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

"What are the most popular digital #tools for learning and why? The 19th Annual Survey is now open to generate the TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2025 list"
https://toptools4learning.com/voting/…

Jährlich genehmigte Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsche nur gegen Geld. 🤪

Ex-Dolphins DB Reshad Jones scammed out of $2.58 million in grand theft, money laundering scheme, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02019

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Light pollution, a typically underrecognized environmental issue, has gained attention in recent years. While controlling light pollution requires sustained efforts, Earth Hour offers a unique natural experimental setting to assess temporary lights-out measures. Using photometric and spectroscopic sensors, we observed up to 50% night sky darkening during Earth Hour from 2011 to 2024 in Hong Kong, primarily as a result of a small but critical number of lights-out instances in central business di…

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

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

The best NFL draft pick at every slot ... ever: Who lands in our 1-262? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45597769/picking-best-nfl-draft-picks-ever-every-slot-common-era-1967-2024

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
Jethro Browell, Dennis van der Meer, Henrik K\"alvegren, Sebastian Haglund, Edoardo Simioni, Ricardo J. Bessa, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01579

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
The Hybrid Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition challenged participants to forecast and trade the electricity generation from a 3.6GW portfolio of wind and solar farms in Great Britain for three months in 2024. The competition mimicked operational practice with participants required to submit genuine forecasts and market bids for the day-ahead on a daily basis. Prizes were awarded for forecasting performance measured by Pinball Score, trading performance measured by total revenue, and com…

Healing Melodies
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-melod

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
Mauricio L\'opez-Reyes, Julio Eduardo Zamora-Salvador, Alma Delia Ort\'iz-Ba\~nuelos, Stephany Paulina Arellano-Ram\'irez, Carlos Rom\'an-Casta\~neda, Armando Gonz\'alez-Figueroa, Hector Hugo Ulloa-God\'inez, Mario E. Garc\'ia Guadalupe

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
This article analyzes the characteristics of the rainy season and extreme temperatures recorded in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, during 2024. Using ERA5 and CHIRPS reanalysis data and observations from thirteen meteorological stations, patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies were identified. The results show a late start and early end of the rainy season, with positive anomalies in the central and southern regions, and significant deficits in the coastal strip. Furthermore, 2024 sto…

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

from my link log —
strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense.
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense
saved 2024-07-25

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
Faruque Ahamed, Md Ataur Rahman Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20340 https://arxiv.…

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
This study constructs an Aggregate Financial Stability Index (AFSI) for Bangladesh to evaluate the systemic health and resilience of the countrys financial system during the period from 2016 to 2024. The index incorporates 19 macrofinancial indicators across four key sectors Real Sector, Financial and Monetary Sector, Fiscal Sector and External Sector. Using a normalized scoring approach and equal weighting scheme, sub-indices were aggregated to form a comprehensive measure of financial stabili…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

TheMinerMag: median cost to mine a bitcoin is expected to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, squeezing margins for less efficient miners (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-producti…

Spontaneous emission and Purcell effect: some aspects
P. P. Abrantes, D. Szilard, C. Farina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10210 https://…

Spontaneous emission and Purcell effect: some aspects
This chapter, part of the Proceedings of the III International Workshop on Quantum Nonstationary Systems (eds. Alexandre Dodonov and Lucas Chibebe Celeri), held in Brasilia in August 2024, offers a comprehensive overview of spontaneous emission (SE) and the Purcell effect within the broader context of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and vacuum fluctuations. It begins with a historical and theoretical review, tracing the development of classical and quantum electromagnetic theories. The chapter th…

Dane Brugler’s 2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Interior offensive linemen https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525093/2025/07/31/nfl-draft-2026-summer-rankings-guards-centers/

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 583 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29417 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 56 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29944 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
Scott Powers, Ronald Yurko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01238 https://

Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
In 2024, Major League Baseball released new bat tracking data, reporting swing-by-swing bat speed and swing length measured at the point of contact. While exciting, the data present challenges for their interpretation. The timing of the batter's swing relative to the pitch determines the point of measurement relative to the full swing path. The relationship between swing metrics and swing outcomes is confounded by the batter's pitch recognition. We introduce a framework for interpreting bat tra…

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Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Ippolita Tersigni, Filippo Nelli, Emiliano Cimoli, Petra Heil, Luke Bennetts, Giulio Passerotti, Alessandro Toffoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10916

Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Snow cover plays a critical yet often underrepresented role in shaping the thermodynamic behavior of Antarctic sea ice. In this study, we investigate the seasonal variability of snow distribution and its impact on surface albedo and energy fluxes across the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using a unique dataset from five shipborne expeditions conducted between 2019 and 2024. High-resolution visible and infrared imagery, combined with field observations and meteorological data, reveal that even modest …

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Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
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Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

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Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

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Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
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