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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

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6

AI video start-up takes wide-angle view to boost growth
Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries

"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…

#TLGBQIA2S

”It’s Time To Reshuffle This Acronym!” - FANE
An open letter to the greater queer community, haphazardly but passionately written by R.T. Ferent: a 40-something, married, gay, cisgender, white man with the absolute best of intentions in his heart. This is dedicated with all of my love to my fearless nephew, Remus, who is so much stronger than I ever was at his

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

15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994 https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/15-great-games-you-could-play-on-a-mac-performa-575-in-1994

15 great games you could play on a Mac Performa 575 in 1994
I’m not an Apple guy today, and I have all non-Apple stuff now. But as a kid, the first family computer we had was the Mac Performa 575 (around 1994, when it was released). And I dug it. At t…

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…

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

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

Bundes-Klinik-Atlas geht offline, Verbraucherschützer üben Kritik
Der im Mai 2024 vom Bundesgesundheitsministerium veröffentlichte Klinik-Atlas geht nach nur einem Jahr wieder offline. Die Verbraucherschutzzentrale übt Kritik.

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

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://…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Elim Chan leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Clara Schumann's piano concerto with Isata Kanneh-Mason with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfzc

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…

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

🤔 Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?
#indonesia

Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?
JAKARTA — While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, bucking a global trend. But beneath the headline figures lies a troubling mystery: Nearly half of the forest cleared last year can’t be linked to any identifiable driver, raising red flags about speculative land clearing, regulatory blind spots […]

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

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.

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

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

An Entropy-Guided Curriculum Learning Strategy for Data-Efficient Acoustic Scene Classification under Domain Shift
Peihong Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Zhixin Li, Rui Sang, Yiqiang Cai, Yizhou Tan, Shengchen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11168

An Entropy-Guided Curriculum Learning Strategy for Data-Efficient Acoustic Scene Classification under Domain Shift
Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) faces challenges in generalizing across recording devices, particularly when labeled data is limited. The DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 1 highlights this issue by requiring models to learn from small labeled subsets recorded on a few devices. These models need to then generalize to recordings from previously unseen devices under strict complexity constraints. While techniques such as data augmentation and the use of pre-trained models are well-established for imp…

Vaizdelis iš Kauno mašinų turgaus šiandien (ieškau pirkti auto).
Apžiūrinėjam mašiną. Kainos nėr, bet kaip ir tinka panašios. Panašesnė, kad naudojama, o ne parduodama. Jau nueidinėjam, atsiranda aikštelės savininkas. Sako mano, bet žiūrėkit parduosiu už Xk EUR.
Apžiūrinėjom.
Klausiam ridos, sako 325k. Odometras irgi rodo 325k km. Po kapotu ant kažkurio dangtelio ryškiai užrašyta "2025-03-.. 335,000 ...". Dar po kapotu serviso lipdukas ant kurio data ~2024-11 ir &…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

How can we make sustainability part of everything we do?
That question led to the creation of SIG-Sustainability, a new community space within the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP).
Launched in 2024, the group brings together members from across our community to exchange ideas and tools, from reducing carbon footprint to promoting inclusivity & climate adaptation.
📖 Read the full interview with the SIG-Sustainability Coordinator Judith Six (Jisc) in

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…

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

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,…

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.

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 One Hundred Days
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/one-hundred-days-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZkOFujtamIynWGfo9PdGR

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

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…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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/

🇺🇦 #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

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

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
L. Olifer, D. Zhou, M. Patel, I. R. Mann, M. K. Hudson, A. W. Degeling, C. O. Heinke, G. R. Sivakoff, A. Kale, S. Kasahara, S. Yokota, K. Keika, T. Hori, T. Mitani, T. Takashima, Y. Kasahara, S. Matsuda, A. Shinbori, A. Matsuoka, M. Teramoto, K. Yamamoto, I. Shinohara, Y. Miyoshi
https:…

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
The May 2024 geomagnetic superstorm provided the opportunity to explore how strong wave-particle interactions affect energetic electron precipitation under intense driving. Using coordinated measurements from a balloon-borne Timepix-based X-ray detector, ground-based riometers and magnetometers, and Arase satellite observations, we identified quasi-periodic bursts of energetic electron precipitation coincident with Pc5 ultra low frequency (ULF) wave oscillations. Arase satellite data revealed e…

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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 06.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

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…

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.

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),…

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.

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…

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

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

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.

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…

Fisher information for solutions of the Boltzmann equation
Cyril Imbert (DMA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03045 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03045

Fisher information for solutions of the Boltzmann equation
This note reviews a recent contribution about the Fisher information for the space-homogeneous Boltzmann equation by L. Silvestre, C. Villani and the author (arXiv, 2024). This classical functional from information theory is shown to be nonincreasing along the flow of the non-linear PDE for all physically relevant particle interactions. The proof consists in establishing a new functional inequality on the sphere of Log-Sobolev type. This new a priori estimate on solutions yields global-in-time …

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

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

Range characterization of the ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields in two dimensions
Divyansh Agrawal, Venkateswaran P. Krishnan, Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03046

Range characterization of the ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields in two dimensions
The ray transform $I_m$ integrates a symmetric $m$ rank tensor field $f$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ over lines. In the case of $n\ge3$, the range characterization of the operator $I_m$ on weighted Sobolev spaces $H^{s}_t({\mathbb R}^n;S^m{\mathbb R}^n)$ was obtained in [V. Krishnan and V. Sharafutdinov. Range characterization of ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields. Inverse Problems and Imaging, 18(6), 1272--1293, 2024]. Here we obtain a range characterization result in higher orde…

Diese Meldung gab es ähnlich bereits 2024, aber nun sind wir bereits im Jahr 2028!
#Kohleausstieg schreitet…

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