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Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
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Spahn (7/2024): „Wenn ich Präsident Trump zuhöre, dann mag ich seinen Stil zwar nicht […], aber wenn ich auf die Inhalte schaue [...], dann sehe ich gemeinsame Interessen“
Deutschland: „In dem Abschiebeflug in den Irak saßen nicht nur männliche Straftäter, sondern auch Frauen und Kinder - mehr als bislang bekannt.“

It's not just the English Channel / La Manche.
28 deaths a day as people try to reach Spanish Canary Islands by raft or open boat.
8 drowned in the harbour on arrival yesterday when theit boat capsized.
Again. Migration by boats will continue until a) source countries get just trade, reparations and an end to neocolonialism, and meanwhile,
b) #SafeRoutes
9.757 perso…

9.757 personas fallecieron en pateras o cayucos que trataban de llegar a Canarias en 2024: 28 muertes al día
Son los datos del balance anual que realiza la ONG Caminando Fronteras con su informe 'Monitoreo Derecho a la Vida' y que suponen un aumento del 62,4% frente a las cifras del año pasado

‼️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.

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

Today I'll introduce you to the last and oldest sibling of our stray cat offspring: this is Nele, born on May 31st, 2024. As her siblings and her mother, she still lives on our property. #caturday #catcontent

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Adrian Celaya, Tucker Netherton, Dawid Schellingerhout, Caroline Chung, Beatrice Riviere, David Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19626

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Medical image segmentation continues to advance rapidly, yet rigorous comparison between methods remains challenging due to a lack of standardized and customizable tooling. In this work, we present the current state of the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit (MIST), with a particular focus on its flexible and modular postprocessing framework designed for the BraTS 2025 pre- and post-treatment glioma segmentation challenge. Since its debut in the 2024 BraTS adult glioma post-treatment segmentat…

Cowboys' in-house Tyler Guyton replacement likely unheralded 7th-round pick https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-in-house-tyler-guyton-replacement-likely-unheralded-7th-round-pick-nate-thomas…

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Meina Zhu, Lanyu Xu, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21818

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Given the increasing demands in computer programming education and the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLMs play a critical role in programming education. This study provides a systematic review of selected empirical studies on LLMs in computer programming education, published from 2023 to March 2024. The data for this review were collected from Web of Science (SCI/SSCI), SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, as well as three conference proceedings specialized in computer programm…

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Xuchun Duan, Ting Li, Yijun Hou, Yang Wang, Yue Li, Yining Zhang, Zheng Sun, Guiping Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21907

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Large SEPs can cause adverse space weather hazard to humans technology and such events are especially associated with halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But in turn, a significant portion of halo-CMEs are not associated with large SEPs. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of the source region distinctions between halo-CMEs in SEP and No-SEP events. Among the 176 halo-CMEs observed from 2010-2024, we screen out 45 large SEP events and 131 No-SEP events from this dataset. It …

Bei der #NABU-Aktion "Stunde der Gartenvögel" wurden dieses Jahr weniger Vögel pro Garten gezählt als 2024.
Ursachen sind laut NABU #Krankheiten wie das Usutu Virus, #Futtermangel …

NABU-Aktion: Weniger Vögel in Gärten und Parks gezählt
Bei der "Stunde der Gartenvögel" haben Beobachterinnen und Beobachter weniger Vögel als sonst gezählt. Das ist das Ergebnis der Mitmach-Aktion des Naturschutzbunds Deutschland e.V. (NABU).

Theoretical modeling and quantitative research on aquatic ecosystems driven by multiple factors
Haizhao Guan, Yiyuan Niu, Chuanjin Zu, Ju Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19553 h…

Theoretical modeling and quantitative research on aquatic ecosystems driven by multiple factors
Understanding the complex interactions between water temperature, nutrient levels, and chlorophyll-a dynamics is essential for addressing eutrophication and the proliferation of harmful algal blooms in freshwater ecosystems algal. However, many existing studies tend to oversimplify thse relationships often neglecting the non-linear effects and long-term temporal variations that influence chlorophyll-a growth. Here, we conducted multi-year field monitoring (2020-2024) of the key environmental fa…

Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach https://therecord.media/estonia-arrest-warrant-pharmacy-data-breach

Stellt euch vor: Ein Asteroid schlägt auf dem Mond ein und ist von der Erde aus zu beobachten! 🌕💥
Genau dieses Szenario könnte am 22. Dezember 2032 Realität werden, wenn der Asteroid 2024 YR4 tatsächlich auf unserem Trabanten einschlägt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10457429

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Peter Tosh:
🎵 Legalize It
#NowPlaying #PeterTosh
https://scottremedy.bandcamp.com/track/peter-tosh-legalize-it-2024-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/73lYI49LhfsscO33ohrGN0

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
D. Pfeiffer, F. M. Brunbauer, I. R. Fehse, A. D. Finke, K. Fissum, K. J. Floethner, D. Janssens, M. Lisowska, H. Muller, E. Oksanen, E. Oliveri, L. Ropelewski, A. Rusu, J. Samarati, L. Scharenberg, M. van Stenis, R. Veenhof, N. Zavaritskaya
https://

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
The detectors for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund use natural Gd as the neutron converter. In 2024, beam time was obtained at the neutron time-of flight experiment (nTOF) at CERN to study the feasibility of an upgrade to enriched Gd. A 10 x 10 cm^2 prototype of the NMX detector was equipped with two enriched Gd samples (157Gd and 155Gd) that were attached with copper tape to the natural Gd cathode of the detector. Three sets of measurements were taken, with th…

Sin noticias de la línea C-9 Cercedilla-Cotos: la renovación, paralizada 🚞
Gracias a @… por su labor de investigación, y por reportar algo que estš pasando desapercibido en los medios...
Espero que lo arreglen antes del invierno ☃️
#MovilidadSostenible

Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
Anastasia Kireeva, Afonso S. Bandeira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22182 h…

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
These notes describe our experience with running a student seminar on average-case complexity in statistical inference using the jigsaw learning format at ETH Zurich in Fall of 2024. The jigsaw learning technique is an active learning technique where students work in groups on independent parts of the task and then reassemble the groups to combine all the parts together. We implemented this technique for the proofs of various recent research developments, combined with a presentation by one of …

Perfect Clustering in Very Sparse Diverse Multiplex Networks
Marianna Pensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19423 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19423

Perfect Clustering in Very Sparse Diverse Multiplex Networks
The paper studies the DIverse MultiPLEx Signed Generalized Random Dot Product Graph (DIMPLE-SGRDPG) network model (Pensky (2024)), where all layers of the network have the same collection of nodes. In addition, all layers can be partitioned into groups such that the layers in the same group are embedded in the same ambient subspace but otherwise matrices of connection probabilities can be all different. This setting includes majority of multilayer network models as its particular cases. The key…

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Mohammed Baharoon, Jun Ma, Congyu Fang, Augustin Toma, Bo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21535

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a promising way to automate Radiology Report Generation (RRG). In this work, we systematically investigate the design space of 3D MLLMs, including visual input representation, projectors, Large Language Models (LLMs), and fine-tuning techniques for 3D CT report generation. We also introduce two knowledge-based report augmentation methods that improve performance on the GREEN score by up to 10\%, achieving the 2nd place on the MICCAI 2024 …

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

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

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
Zihan Lin, Haojie Liu, Randall R. Rojas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20039 https://

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
This study proposes a novel portfolio optimization framework that integrates statistical social network analysis with time series forecasting and risk management. Using daily stock data from the S&P 500 (2020-2024), we construct dependency networks via Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD), transforming influence relationships into a cost-based network. Specifically, FEVD breaks down the VAR's forecast error variance to quantify how much each stock's shock…

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
Abdulkareem Alsudais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21825 https://

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
The rise and growing popularity of accessible large language models have raised questions about their impact on various aspects of life, including how scientists write and publish their research. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze a dataset consisting of all abstracts posted on arXiv.org between 2010 and June 7th, 2024, to assess the evolution of their readability and determine whether significant shifts occurred following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Four standard re…

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19373 …

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use data from 40 news organizations (5,243,302 Facebook posts, 7,875,372,958 user reactions) and 21 non-news pages (396,468 posts; 1,909,088,308 reactions) between January 1, 2016 and February 13, 2025 to examine how these changes influenced news visibility on the platform. Reactions to news declined by 78% between 2021 and…

On 1-year anniversary, Ukraine names Russian officer linked to deadly strike on Kyiv Okhmatdyt children's hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/on-year-anniversary-ukraine-names.html

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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alex mein Smith:
🎵 Wild Flower
#alexmeinSmith
https://alexmeinsmith.bandcamp.com/track/wild-flower-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RZDSDwz2elCsnbJBBTUza

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

Analysis: in H1 2025, 500 orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df01dcf8-dbc4-4b56-8d8b-67b7e6a83eef

📢 Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.
➡️ https://www.

Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.

@… announced that Doris Reiter is awarded with the "Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 (mid-career)" ... Go Sis!
https://eps…

Magnetic Field Induced Nonlinear Transport in LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces
Aidan Steineman, Maxim Khodas, Maxim Dzero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18854 https://

Magnetic Field Induced Nonlinear Transport in LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces
Motivated by the recent experimental measurements of the nonlinear longitudinal resistance of the spin-orbit coupled electron gas in the (111) LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interfaces under external in-plane magnetic field [G. Tuvia \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146301 (2024)], we formulate a theory of nonlinear electronic transport based on the analysis of the quantum kinetic equation for the Wigner distribution function. Specifically, we evaluate the magnetic field dependence of the second harmo…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

Saudi Arabia has executed almost 600 people over the past decade for drug-related offences,
-- three-quarters of whom were foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria and Egypt.
After a temporary moratorium on drug-related capital punishments between 2021 and 2022, the executions jumped to record levels, with 122 in 2024 and 118 so far this year up until the end of last month.
With little international scrutiny of what Amnesty International de…

2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour auf dem Schulfest des Wilhelmsgymnasiums in Stuttgart-Degerloch. Dort haben wir neben den Feierlichkeiten auch etwas Schach angeboten und unser Maskottchen Chessy war natürlich auch mit am Start.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Mennatullah T. Khedr, John S. Fitzgerald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20435

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to model complex systems, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and System-of-Systems (SoS), where effective integration is key. This systematic literature review investigates DT composition and verification and validation (V&V) methodologies. Analyzing 21 studies from 2022-2024, we examined composition mechanisms, SoS characteristics, and V&V formality, scope, and challenges. While composition is discussed, formalization is limited. V&V approaches…

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

Gute Nachrichten für alle, die in der IT-Branche arbeiten oder einen Einstieg planen! 💻 Laut aktuellen Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sind die Gehälter im IT-Bereich 2024 um etwa 3,85% gestiegen und liegen damit über der Inflationsrate von 2,2%.
Zum Artikel: https://

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024)
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New Journal and CFP: Inaugural Issue of Central Europe Yearbook Now Available The…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
Minseok Kim, S. K. Kim, A. Rothstein, P. Steiner, K. Erickson, Y. H. Lee, H. Han, Sang-hee Hahn, J. W. Juhn, B. Kim, R. Shousha, C. S. Byun, J. Butt, ChangMin Shin, J. Hwang, Minsoo Cha, Hiro Farre, S. M. Yang, Q. Hu, D. Eldon, N. C. Logan, A. Jalalvand, E. Kolemen
https://

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
We report the experimental results of controlling the pedestal-top electron density by applying resonant magnetic perturbation with the in-vessel control coils and the main gas puff in the 2024-2025 KSTAR experimental campaign. The density is reconstructed using a parametrized psi_N grid and the five channels of the line-averaged density measured by a two-colored interferometer. The reconstruction procedure is accelerated by deploying a multi-layer perceptron to run in about 120 microseconds an…

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/are-gray-skies-trying-to-bring-us-down-inspiration/

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Vision Pro: Erstes Upgrade noch in diesem Jahr?
Seit Frühjahr 2024 ist Apples erstes Mixed-Reality-Headset erhältlich. Nun steht angeblich bald die zweite Version an – mit wichtigen Verbesserungen.
https://www.

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19300

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media. We use 6,081,134 Facebook posts published between January 1, 2020, and April 1, 2024, by 97 media organizations in six countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain) and develop two multilingual classifiers for labeling posts as (non-)political and (non-)negative. We show that: (1) negative news posts constitut…

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Sajad Rezaie, Mikko Honkala, Dani Korpi, Dick Carrillo Melgarejo, Tomasz Izydorczyk, Dimitri Gold, Oana-Elena Barbu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20248

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Fifth-generation (5G) systems utilize orthogonal demodulation reference signals (DMRS) to enable channel estimation at the receiver. These orthogonal DMRS-also referred to as pilots-are effective in avoiding pilot contamination and interference from both the user's own data and that of others. However, this approach incurs a significant overhead, as a substantial portion of the time-frequency resources must be reserved for pilot transmission. Moreover, the overhead increases with the number of …

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Fundamental Solutions of the Logarithmic Laplacian: An Approach via the Division Problem
David Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20121 https://

Fundamental Solutions of the Logarithmic Laplacian: An Approach via the Division Problem
Existence of the fundamental solution of the logarithmic Laplacian (in dimensions $d \geq 3$) was established by Huyuan Chen and Laurent Véron (2024). In this note, we present an alternative approach, based on a modification on the classical division problem. This is inspired by the theory of fundamental solutions by Malgrange and Ehrenpreis. Moreover, we give a variant of the Liouville theorem for the logarithmic Laplacian and give some further clarification regarding a conjecture posed by Ch…

How the GOP Brought Trump Back from the Dead (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gop-brought-trump-back-from-dead-2020-2024-january-6-republicans-dawsey-pager-arnsdorf-trial-primary
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p129#a250708p129

#Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Compact-Verbot auf
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verbot-compact-aufgehoben-100.html
😡

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

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

Resnet-conformer network with shared weights and attention mechanism for sound event localization, detection, and distance estimation
Quoc Thinh Vo, David Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17941

Resnet-conformer network with shared weights and attention mechanism for sound event localization, detection, and distance estimation
This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating sound event localization and detection, aiding in various machine cognition tasks such as environmental inference, navigation, and other sound localization-related applications. This year's challenge evaluates models using either audio-only (Track A) or audio…

Fair Data Exchange with Constant-Time Proofs
Majid Khabbazian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14944

Fair Data Exchange with Constant-Time Proofs
The Fair Data Exchange (FDE) protocol introduced at CCS 2024 offers atomic pay-per-file transfers with constant-size proofs, but its prover and verifier runtimes still scale linearly with the file length n. We collapse these costs to essentially constant by viewing the file as a rate-1 Reed-Solomon (RS) codeword, extending it to a lower-rate RS code with constant redundancy, encrypting this extended vector, and then proving correctness for only a small random subset of the resulting ciphertexts…

Microsoft entlässt weitere 9000 Leute. Mit KI wird die Qualität deren Software auch nicht besser. Die Finanzergebnisse waren 2024 rekordverdächtig – 245 Mrd. Dollar Umsatz (Steigerung um 16 %) und 109 Mrd. Dollar operativer Gewinn (Steigerung um ein Viertel). Damit werden vor allem Spielestudiis aufgekauft und neue Rechenzentren gebaut.
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Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.
#movies

Presence (2024)
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3bRBaAPIdMqP53D29w19d5?si=d153e732854f4b42

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

I still see no signs that indicate that the D-party has the ability to win seats in 2024 or win the presidency (or house or senate majority) in 2028.
I am perceiving the D-party eroding-itself away leaving individual candidates to run their own campaigns.
Although I am much in favor of the goals of much "identity" based campaign messaging I feel that emphasis on those has cost the progressive/liberal voice too many seats. Those messages, valid and important as they are…

Yes, There's Evidence Trump Hacked the 2024 Election - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c&ab_channel=ScottCarney

Stadt Bochum zeichnet sich selbst aus.
„Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC) den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Aufholer erhalten.“
https://www.

Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus | Stadt Bochum
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC)  den ersten Platz in der Kategorie „Aufholer“ erhalten.

Die Union fordert Krankenhäuser effizienter zu machen. Ich hätte da eine ungewöhnliche Idee: könnten sich Krankenhäuser darauf konzentrieren, eine möglichst effektive Gesundheits­versorgung sicher zu stellen,¹ statt Gewinne machen zu müssen,² könnte das ganz entgegen der neoliberalen Lehre effizienter sein.
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¹z.B. in kommunaler Trägerschaft
²Asklepios Kliniken machte 2024 insgesamt 136 Millionen Euro, Fresenius Helios 772 Millionen Euro, usw, und diese Gewinne werden von un…

https://flic.kr/p/2rfrTWx <-- On a clear day you can see forever :-) Thank you magnificent computational photography 25x digital zoom from the Adobe Indigo Camera App 2024-07-07 Beautiful people and beautiful Cypress views :-)

Was cleaning out my tabs, and wow, this article aged well. 😂
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247985/tesla-cybertruck-july-2024-sales-deliveries-match-all-ev-trucks

Tesla sold more Cybertrucks than almost all other EV trucks combined
Tesla Cybertruck registrations in July almost match overall EV truck registrations, including Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, suggesting strong Cybertruck demand.

Russian Supreme Court chair dies at 71 after illness: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/russian-supreme-court-chair-dies.html

Die Anmeldung zum RSR-Ausbildung während der #DEM25 ist noch bis übermorgen möglich - sichere dir hier deinen Platz und lerne alles, was du über die Schachregeln wissen musst: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termi…

In Q2 2025, global VC funding reached $91B, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-funding-climbs-q2-…

Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger...
Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows.

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

Einschlag des Asteroiden 2024 YR₄ auf Mond noch einmal etwas wahrscheinlicher
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ ist vorerst außer Reichweite unserer Instrumente. Laut der letzten Beobachtung ist ein Einschlag auf dem Mond nun etwas wahrscheinlicher.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 273 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29727 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao, Yikai Wu, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Dominik Krupke, Patrick Kidger, Touqir Sajed, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jisun Park, Nathanael Bosch, Eli Meril, Albert Steppi, Arman Zharmagambetov, Fangzhao Zhang, David Perez-Pineiro, Alberto Mercurio, Ni Zhan, Talor Abramovich, Kilian Lieret, Hanlin Zhang, Shirley Huang, Matthias Bethge, Ofir Press

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (Jimenez et al., 2024) and mathematics (Glazer et al., 2024). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algorithms in an open-ended benchmark: We task LMs with writing code that efficiently solves computationally challenging problems in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Our AlgoTu…

Machine learning-based multimodal prognostic models integrating pathology images and high-throughput omic data for overall survival prediction in cancer: a systematic review
Charlotte Jennings (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Andrew Broad (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Lucy Godson (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Emily…

Machine learning-based multimodal prognostic models integrating pathology images and high-throughput omic data for overall survival prediction in cancer: a systematic review
Multimodal machine learning integrating histopathology and molecular data shows promise for cancer prognostication. We systematically reviewed studies combining whole slide images (WSIs) and high-throughput omics to predict overall survival. Searches of EMBASE, PubMed, and Cochrane CENTRAL (12/08/2024), plus citation screening, identified eligible studies. Data extraction used CHARMS; bias was assessed with PROBAST+AI; synthesis followed SWiM and PRISMA 2020. Protocol: PROSPERO (CRD42024594745)…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (1)
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/2641/2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p63#a250619p63

Falcons did Kirk Cousins wrong: How 2024 NFL offseason could've been turned upside down if QB rejected Atlanta

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

Der #Waldzustandsbericht 2024 zeigt, dass nur noch jeder fünfte Baum in #Deutschland als gesund gilt.
#Hitze,

80 Prozent der Bäume in Deutschland haben Schäden
Der Zustand der deutschen Wälder bleibt angesichts von Hitze, Trockenheit und Schädlingen ernst. 80 Prozent der Fichten, Kiefern, Buchen und Eichen sind krank, so das Bundesagrarministerium.

Wie gestalten wir Schach inklusiv? Hier bekommst du konkrete Ideen für mehr Teilhabe in Verein und Verband.
➡️ #DSJAkademie

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ing\'enieurs du Qu\'ebec (OIQ)
Tammy Mackenzie, Varsha Kesavan, Thomas Mekhael, Animesh Paul, Branislav Radeljic, Sara Kodeiri, Sreyoshi Bhaduri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19775

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
This study uses pre-trained LLMs to conduct thematic analysis to investigate disciplinary incidents involving engineers in Quebec, shedding light on critical gaps in engineering education. Through a comprehensive review of the disciplinary register of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)'s disciplinary register for 2010 to 2024, researchers from engineering education and human resources management in technological development laboratories conducted a thematic analysis of reported incident…

Dan Osborn,
the independent candidate who came surprisingly close to defeating Republican senator Deb Fischer in Nebraska last year,
announced on Tuesday he will run for the state’s other Senate seat in 2026 against GOP senator Pete Ricketts.
The industrial mechanic and former Kellogg’s strike leader lost to Fischer by less than seven points in 2024
– a remarkable result in deep-red Nebraska.
Osborn received 66,000 more votes than Kamala Harris, who lost the sta…

Dan Osborn (@osbornforne) on X
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Ok. You've all convinced me. I'm in. I'm running for Senate against billionaire Pete Ricketts In Nebraska. This race represents the foundational battle taking place in America right now: The Billionaire Class vs. The Working Class Who's with me?

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

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

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 373 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29627 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Falcons QB Kirk Cousins opens up about Atlanta's decision to draft Michael Penix Jr. in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons

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.

Stimme noch bis 25. Mai ab, wer die Auszeichnung "Spieler:in des Jahres" für 2024 erhält - hier geht es zu den Kandidat:innen in vier Kategorien: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/spielerdesjahres/2024/

Der deutsche #Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds (#WSF) erzielte 2024 mit 90,4 Millionen Euro erneut einen Jahresüberschuss.
Ursprünglich zur Unterstützung großer Unternehmen in der #Coronapandemie

#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2001 and 2024.

Hab bisschen mit 17 GB #MStR-Daten rumgespielt.
Kann das mal jemand nachrechnen? 🤔 🤪
#Balkonkraftwerk #Photovoltaik

Was kann man noch alles so mit den Rohdaten des Marktstammdatenregisters machen?
Man kann berechnen, wie viele #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr gebaut wurden.
#Balkonsolar #Solarenergie

Zubau (netto) der Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland.
Hoffe, es stimmt. Wer Langeweile hat, kann ja mal nachrechnen. 😆

#Balkonsolar #Energiewende

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

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