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"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00518.2024

Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170 countries (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/08/…

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase
The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.

Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

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-…

US investors in spyware firms nearly tripled in 2024: report https://therecord.media/us-investors-in-spyware-tripled-in-2024

Are Trump's voters turning against him? (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/464021/coalition-trump-voters-turning-against-him-2024-midterm-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p142#a251007p142

OH on slack:
SREcon 2024: hey, just a crazy thing, but we thought about giving the root password to a parrot. What do you think?
SREcon 2025: here's our comprehensive report from parrot's rampage, after equipping it with root password and a spending account
SREcon 2026: codebases should be parrots, not pets
SREcon 2027, presented mostly by parrots: how to work effectively with grumpy humans
#sre #devoops #aipocalypse @sre@tagpush.app

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

It's shocking to me that the guy who was a useless councilmember (and council president) in Seattle for more than a decade also turned out to be a useless Mayor. Absolutely shocking! https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115327462564038876

Dangerous City du Jour - Whims of the Mad Despot: Four red states are worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

Ami.e
P'tit Belliveau, « L'église de St. Bernard » (2024)
Pis dans ma tête y’a un singe enragé
Il bois d’la bière
Il clap ses mains
Il tape du pied
C'est mon chum
https://ptitbelliveau.bandcamp.com/track/l-glise-de-st-bernard

from my link log —
CandyFab: a DIY 3D sugar printer.
https://candyfab.org/
saved 2024-12-20 https://dotat.at/:/3D5SH.html

UK filings: Piers Morgan's production company Wake Up Productions generated £17.1M in revenue in 2024, as he concluded his £50M, three year deal with News UK (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/piers-mo…

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

Sie haben 2024 um 61,2 Prozent mehr gearbeitet als Erwerbstätige mit ähnlichen soziodemografischen Merkmalen und um 49,7 Prozent mehr als die durchschnittliche Arbeitskraft in Österreich.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
> The world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83% of the global increase in electricity demand. Wind power grew by just over 7%, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
> China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Eur…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Sadomaso-Affäre - Hinweise schon 2024: Botschafter zu spät abberufen #News #Nachrichten

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Julien Baste, Lucas De Meyer, Ugo Giocanti, Etienne Objois, Timoth\'e Picavet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02901

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Dumas, Foucaud, Perez and Todinca (2024) recently proved that every graph whose edges can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth at most $O(3^k)$. In this paper, we improve this upper bound on the pathwidth to a polynomial one; namely, we show that every graph whose edge set can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth $O(k^4)$, answering a question from the same paper. Moreover, we prove that when $k\leq 3$, every such graph has pathwidth at most $k$ (and this bound is tight). Fi…

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
D. O. Chernyshov, A. V. Ivlev, V. A. Dogiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03073 https…

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
The theory of cosmic-ray (CR) penetration into dense molecular clouds developed recently for relativistic particles by Chernyshov et al. (2024) is extended to non-relativistic CRs. Interstellar CRs streaming into the clouds are able to resonantly excite MHD waves in diffuse cloud envelopes. This leads to the self-modulation, such that streaming particles are scattered at the self-generated waves. In contrast to relativistic CRs, transport of lower-energy particles in the envelopes is generally …

Does FOMC Tone Really Matter? Statistical Evidence from Spectral Graph Network Analysis
Jaeho Choi, Jaewon Kim, Seyoung Chung, Chae-shick Chung, Yoonsoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02705

Does FOMC Tone Really Matter? Statistical Evidence from Spectral Graph Network Analysis
This study examines the relationship between Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements and financial market network structure through spectral graph theory. Using hypergraph networks constructed from S\&P 100 stocks around FOMC announcement dates (2011--2024), we employ the Fiedler value -- the second eigenvalue of the hypergraph Laplacian -- to measure changes in market connectivity and systemic stability. Our event study methodology reveals that FOMC announcements significantly alter…

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Mass concentration in a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model with fast sedimentation
Iulia Cristian, Juan J. L. Vel\'azquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04270 https://

Mass concentration in a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model with fast sedimentation
We study a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model that contains a transport term in the spatial variable. The transport term models the vertical motion of particles due to gravity, thereby incorporating their fall into the dynamics. Local existence of mass-conserving solutions for a class of coagulation rates for which in the spatially homogeneous case instantaneous gelation (i.e., instantaneous loss of mass) occurs has been proved in [Cristian-Niethammer-Velázquez, 2024]. In order to obtai…

Lions have 'added motivation' for Week 10 game vs. Commanders after playoff loss https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-added-motivation-week-10-game-commanders-playoff-loss

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
Damien Calaque, Stefano Ronchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04625

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
These notes are intended to be an introduction to shifted symplectic geometry, targeted to Poisson geometers with a serious background in homological algebra. They are extracted from a mini-course given by the first author at the Poisson 2024 summer school that took place at the Accademia Pontaniana in Napoli.

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

OMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://

The Bear Is Not a Good Show
When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

Pareto-optimal Non-uniform Language Generation
Moses Charikar, Chirag Pabbaraju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02795 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02795

Pareto-optimal Non-uniform Language Generation
Kleinberg and Mullainathan (2024) recently proposed an interesting model for language generation in the limit: Given a countable collection of languages, and an adversary enumerating the strings of some language $L$ from the collection, the objective is to generate new strings from the target language, such that all strings generated beyond some finite time are valid. Li, Raman and Tewari (2024) and Charikar and Pabbaraju (2024) showed strong non-uniform generation guarantees in this model, giv…

Interessante vraag zou zijn of het ook meer fossiele kilometers zijn. Ik vermoed van niet.
Voor het eerst meer autokilometers dan voor corona https://nos.nl/l/2589264

Voor het eerst meer autokilometers dan voor corona
Samen reden Nederlandse automobilisten in 2024 bijna 122 miljard kilometer in binnen- en buitenland. Dat is 726 miljoen kilometer meer dan in 2019.

Observers worry that Trump might abuse the power of the Insurrection Act.
Given his propensity to lie and exaggerate about the immigration crisis
-- such as the false rumors he helped spread about Haitian immigrants in 2024
-- Trump might use similar false claims to justify sending troops into American cities.
During his first term, he reportedly threatened to use military force against protestors after the murder of George Floyd.
Now that Trump has purged top …

Is Trump About To Use The Insurrection Act? Here's Why Some People Believe So - Blavity

Microsoft bringt "Flight Simulator 2024" auf die Playstation 5
Microsoft gibt ein weiteres Kronjuwel her: Der "Flight Simulator 2024" kommt auf die Playstation 5. Auch Support für PS VR 2 ist geplant.

Beim Aufräumen gefunden.

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS $\zeta$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Davit Gondauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02966

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS + $ζ$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Inflation forecasting is a core socio-economic challenge in modern macroeconomic modeling, especially when cyclical, structural, and shock factors act simultaneously. Traditional systems such as FPAS and ARIMA often struggle with cyclical asymmetry and unexpected fluctuations. This study proposes a hybrid framework (FPAS + $ζ$) that integrates a structural macro model (FPAS) with cyclical components derived from the Riemann zeta function $ζ(1/2 + i t)$. Using Georgia's macro data (2005-2024),…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 04.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

kind of wild, but only michael jackson & dr. seuss outrank syd barrett & rick wright as 2025's best-paid dead celebrities (though i assume that's a 1-year-only thing after the floyd sold their publishing rights in 2024). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/202

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025
On the 25th anniversary of the Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.

Shopping for a new cat flap and am sorely tempted by this:
https://www.onlycat.com/examples/
> Contraband Detected!
A machine vision model detects rodents, etc and prevents entry if your beloved tries to return with any extra "guests"

Examples
Examples You won't believe some of the weird and wonderful sights you'll see. Here are just a few highlights from our customers..https://www.onlycat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/OC-8C1F64481046_826-.mp4This rodent fancied his chances against the might of the OnlyCat AI. Try again next time!h

Internal documents: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its annual ad revenue, or $16B, came from fraudulent ads, including $7B from "higher risk" ads (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/met

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

This photo has been on my lock screen this morning and the spatial scene that the iPhone creates makes it delightful.

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday, team announces https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783787/2025/11/06/marshawn-kneeland-dead-cowboys/

If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about it last year:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/
#NCKF25

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

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they’re everywhere.
A frenzy of investment from Amazon, Meta and other companies has created a crowd of new humanoid robots.

Biden "didn't want" 2024 debate, Harris says (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/biden-trump-harris-2024-debate-interview
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p77#a251030p77

It has generally been reported that no significant irregularities was seen during the 2024 presendential election, but not everyone agrees to that.
I wonder if there is any substance to the statistical analysis provided by https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis/…

US Army major general who has been director of operations of UN Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command & US Forces Korea since July 2024 uses ChatGPT to make command decisions. 🤦‍♂️
A threat to the safety of South Korea and the US.
https://

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

California Scrub Jay. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December 2024. #laarboretum #jay #scrubjay

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland dies suddenly at age 24

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marshawn-kneeland-dies-cowboys/

Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://

地味ハロウィン2024 開催レポート・前編
2024年10月27日、東京カルチャーカルチャーで地味ハロウィンが開催された。1年にいちど、地味が輝くイベントだ。そのレポート前編です。 (デイリーポータルZ)

Deciphering the influence of demographic factors on the treatment of pediatric patients in the emergency department
Helena Coggan, Anne Bischops, Pradip Chaudhari, Yuval Barak-Corren, Andrew M. Fine, Ben Y. Reis, Jaya Aysola, William G. La Cava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02841

Deciphering the influence of demographic factors on the treatment of pediatric patients in the emergency department
Persistent demographic disparities have been identified in the treatment of patients seeking care in the emergency department (ED). These may be driven in part by subconscious biases, which providers themselves may struggle to identify. To better understand the operation of these biases, we performed a retrospective cross-sectional analysis using electronic health records describing 339,400 visits to the ED of a single US pediatric medical center between 2019-2024. Odds ratios were calculated u…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

A comprehensive write-up on post-quantum cryptography in today's web.
My favourite quote: "we are in an interesting in-between time, where almost all Internet traffic is protected by post-quantum key agreement, but not a single public post-quantum certificate is used."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/p…

Democrats hope for a 'shot in the arm' in New Jersey and Virginia after 2024 losses (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-hope-shot-arm-new-jersey-virginia-2024-losses-rcna240731
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p7#a251031p7

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

Cowboys second-year DE Kneeland dies at 24 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46869849/cowboys-second-year-de-marshawn-kneeland-dies-24

#Unidice startet Refunding. Der #Kickstarter hatte sein Ziel innerhalb eines Tages erreicht und eine Lieferung im November 2023 angekündigt. Im Dezember 2024 wurde ein nicht näher erläutertes Hardwareproblem bekannt gemacht und Zeit bis Oktober 2025 erbeten. Jetzt folgt die versproch…

2024 ist der Fahrradaktivist Andreas Mandalka alias #Natenom ums Leben gekommen. Nun will das Land den Radweg sanieren
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten? Land saniert Fahrradweg nach Tod von Natenom
Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten: der Fahrradweg an der Todesstrecke von Natenom soll saniert werden. Das Land hat die Aufgabe übernommen.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1149038 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

"Rich-Get-Richer"? Analyzing Content Creator Earnings Across Large Social Media Platforms
Ilan Strauss, Jangho Yang, Mariana Mazzucato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26523

"Rich-Get-Richer"? Analyzing Content Creator Earnings Across Large Social Media Platforms
This paper examines whether monthly content creator earnings follow a power law distribution, driven by compounding 'rich-get-richer' dynamics (Barabasi and Albert 1999). Patreon creator earnings data for 2018, 2021, and 2024 for Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Patreon exhibit a power law exponent around $α= 2$. This suggests that algorithmic systems generate unequalizing returns closer to highly concentrated capital income and wealth, rather than labor income. Platforms gov…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

Saints stop eight-game skid, give Moore 1st win https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46502661/new-orleans-saints-end-skid-top-new-york-giants-1st-win

Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10% after hours (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029099339/en/

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad, this wine, and Jack of Diamonds
#FridayDateNight #meatloaf #wine #JackOfDiamonds

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Slava Kitaeff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Jake Carroll, Stephen Giugni, David Abramson, John Zaitseff, Sarah Walters, David Powell, Chris Bording, Trung Nguyen, Angus Macoustra, Fabien Voisin, Bowen Chen, Jarrod Hurley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17351

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Institutional research computing infrastructure plays a vital role in Australia's research ecosystem, complementing and extending national facilities. This paper analyses research computing capabilities across Australian universities and organisations, showing how institutional systems support research excellence through local compute resources, specialised hardware, and cluster solutions. Our study finds that nearly 112,258 CPU cores and 2,241 GPUs serve over 6,000 researchers as essential bri…

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

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Tobias Vente, Michael Heep, Abdullah Abbas, Theodor Sperle, Joeran Beel, Bart Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19399

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Dataset selection is crucial for offline recommender system experiments, as mismatched data (e.g., sparse interaction scenarios require datasets with low user-item density) can lead to unreliable results. Yet, 86\% of ACM RecSys 2024 papers provide no justification for their dataset choices, with most relying on just four datasets: Amazon (38\%), MovieLens (34\%), Yelp (15\%), and Gowalla (12\%). While Algorithm Performance Spaces (APS) were proposed to guide dataset selection, their adoption h…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincar\'e and Special Relativity"
Jean-Marc Ginoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22726

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity"
In 2024, after thirty years of research on this subject, I published a book entitled: Poincaré, Einstein and the discovery of special relativity. An end to the controversy (Ginoux2024). In September 2025, Galina Weinstein published a review of this book entitled: Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity (arXiv:2509.09361) in which she aimed "to show how Einstein's ether-free, principle-based kinematics marked out a path that, unlike its contemporaries, became the…

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
J. B\"atz, M. Mugrauer, K. -U. Michel, J. Reichert, A. Tschirschky, L. Pietsch, F. Edelmann, R. Neuh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09772

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
We present new radial velocity measurements of 13 selected intermediate mass stars (2 - 6 M$_\odot$). The measurements were performed between 29 April and 6 September 2024 at the University Observatory Jena using the échelle spectrograph FLECHAS. The radial velocity of eight stars was found to be constant during our spectroscopic monitoring, namely: 17 Dra A, HD 148374, HD 169487 A, 57 Cnc, $γ$ And, HD 11031, $κ$ And, and $λ$ Cas. In contrast, the radial velocity of five stars showed signif…

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
P Carmel Marie Zagre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23046

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
This article examines the political consequences of terrorism in Burkina Faso. Using a dataset combining geolocated terrorist events from ACLED (from 2015 to 2024) with public opinion data from Afrobarometer, I compare the effect of successful terrorist attacks on public support for democracy and authoritarian alternatives. The results reveal that successful terrorist attacks significantly increase support for military regimes, one man regimes, and one party systems, while decreasing support fo…

Ich höre die #allesgesagt Episode mit #DavidFischer von #Highsnobiety über #Fashion und

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CLAP: Clustering to Localize Across n Possibilities, A Simple, Robust Geometric Approach in the Presence of Symmetries
Gabriel I. Fernandez, Ruochen Hou, Alex Xu, Colin Togashi, Dennis W. Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08495

CLAP: Clustering to Localize Across n Possibilities, A Simple, Robust Geometric Approach in the Presence of Symmetries
In this paper, we present our localization method called CLAP, Clustering to Localize Across $n$ Possibilities, which helped us win the RoboCup 2024 adult-sized autonomous humanoid soccer competition. Competition rules limited our sensor suite to stereo vision and an inertial sensor, similar to humans. In addition, our robot had to deal with varying lighting conditions, dynamic feature occlusions, noise from high-impact stepping, and mistaken features from bystanders and neighboring fields. The…

Seahawks-Commanders takeaways: Sam Darnold throws 4 touchdown passes, Jayden Daniels hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6772442/2025/11/02/seahawks-commanders-score-result-takeaways-week-9-snf-nfl/

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C in equity and debt, after raising a $80M Series B in 2024 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-robotics-startup-dexory-raises-165m/

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

GPU Programming for AI Workflow Development on AWS SageMaker: An Instructional Approach
Sriram Srinivasan, Hamdan Alabsi, Rand Obeidat, Nithisha Ponnala, Azene Zenebe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13703

GPU Programming for AI Workflow Development on AWS SageMaker: An Instructional Approach
We present the design, implementation, and comprehensive evaluation of a specialized course on GPU architecture, GPU programming, and how these are used for developing AI agents. This course is offered to undergraduate and graduate students during Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. The course began with foundational concepts in GPU/CPU hardware and parallel computing and progressed to develop RAG and optimizing them using GPUs. Students gained experience provisioning and configuring cloud-based GPU ins…

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Like I Say (I Runaway) (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2024)
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/like-i-say-i-runaway
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f57Tz3uydJkSuVsQ7sj4l

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M in loans via lending partners (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bryce Young injury: Panthers QB (ankle) ruled out vs. Jets as Andy Dalton steps in

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bryce-young-injury-panthers-qb-an…

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

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

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Der #Marmolata-Gletscher in den #Dolomiten zieht sich weiter zurück.
Aktuelle Messungen zeigen einen durchschnittlichen Schwund von sieben Metern seit 2024 sowie eine deutliche #Ausdünnung

Dolomiten: Marmolata-Gletscher verschwindet
Italienische Glaziologinnen und Glaziologen sehen für den Marmolata-Gletscher in den Dolomiten schwarz. Im Vergleich zu 2024 hat er sich im Durchschnitt um sieben Meter zurückgezogen – begleitet von einer allgemeinen Ausdünnung der Gletscherfronten.

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.