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Charlie Tanfield Hour Record Attempt Results: live tracker
https://britishcyclingrecords.veloresults.com/HourRecord/results/689d248fe342682ea47f8392
How far will he ride in an hour?

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 …

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

"However, by 2015, support for independence stood at 52% among those on the left, compared with just 24% among those on the right – a difference of 28 points... In our most recent survey in 2024, those on the left were 34 points more likely than those on the right to say that Scotland should become an independent country"
#ScottishIndependence

Scottish Social Attitudes | 25 years of devolution in Scotland | National Centre for Social Research
This briefing charts some of the key developments in Scottish public opinion since the advent of devolution.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373783/polyma

Stargazing: Cowboys who stood out vs. Rams https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stargazing-cowboys-who-stood-out-vs-rams

Jud Awad is overleden, peuter met leukemie die geen toestemming kreeg van Gaza naar Nederland te komen.
Een huisarts uit Leerdam probeerde het kind tevergeefs naar Nederland te halen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/2…

Jud Awad is overleden, peuter met leukemie die geen toestemming kreeg van Gaza naar Nederland te komen
Jud Awad (2024 – 2025): Een huisarts uit Leerdam probeerde het kind tevergeefs naar Nederland te halen.

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

#ListeningClub It’s on Bandcamp if that’s your jam. https://liquidsounddesignuk.bandcamp.com/album/nature-never-di…

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM This event is free and open to the public. A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an…

Getreu unserem Motto „Wer in Bessungen aufschlägt, aus dem wird was“: Victoria Mboko – unsere Turniersiegerin 2024 schlägt Coco Gauff #TennisInternational #Darmstadt #Tennis

from my link log —
Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11582
saved 2024-11-21 https://dotat.at/…

Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns https://therecord.media/cyberattacks-against-schools-driven-by-student-hackers

Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.
🔗 https://www.

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/nvidias-top-two-mystery-customers-made-up-39percent-of-its-q2-revenue-.html…

Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
Nvidia's top two customers making up 39% of its total revenue is renewing concern about the risk of the chipmakers clientele concentration.

>Bought Club-Mate once two years or so ago.
>"It is ok-ish..."
>Got some (involuntarily) served at an event at (old) workplace early-2024.
>"This is somewhat acceptable"
>Got some served at a friend's place while visiting a few months ago.
>"It's alright..."
>This summer, I've bought it myself a few times while doing groceries.
>"Sipsipsip."
>Swapping my "order" (w…

Raiders add another former Eagles player, cutting 2024 starting safety https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/28/raiders-add-another-former-eagles-player-cutting-2024-…

"Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024"
#Netherlands #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024
The Netherlands installed 4.32 GW of solar capacity in 2024, bringing its cumulative total to 28.62 GW by year-end, according to official data.

Jugadores que brillaron en el debut de los Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jugadores-que-brillaron-en-el-debut-de-los-cowboys

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/2]:
- Validating the Galaxy and Quasar Catalog-Level Blinding Scheme for the DESI 2024 analysis
U. Andrade, et al.

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22965

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
The particle creation via quantum tunneling was recently calculated for the Schwarzschild non-commutative black hole solution in Ref. [Phys. Lett. B 848 (2024) 138335, e-Print: 2310.02445 [gr-qc]]. Nevertheless, it contains inconsistencies in the calculations that need to be properly corrected. In particular, the event horizon was incorrectly determined in that work, which affected all the subsequent calculations. Moreover, the same issue have been repeated elsewhere by the same authors in Refs…

Falcons' Trice placed on IR after reinjuring knee https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46096309/falcons-edge-rusher-bralen-trice-reinjures-knee-placed-ir

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…

Ladies & Gentleman... the amazing Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge
#mucke

Won No Teg
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge · Wine On Venus · Song · 2024

Movies watched in July, ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Graduate (1967) 🌞
- Kneecap (2024) 🔁
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
- The Substance (2024) 🔁
- 28 Days Later (2002) 🔁
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 🩸🔁
- 28 Years Later (2025)
- F1 (2025)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) 🌏🔁
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- An Unfinished Film (2024)
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
…

Canary Island Daisy (with tiny spider). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #daisy #flower

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…

Let’s take a look back at GÉANT’s 2024 — all in one place.
Our 2024 Annual Report captures how GÉANT and its community of NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the European #Research & #Education community.
Inside you'll learn more about the GÉANT GN5-1 a…

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…

Steigende #Wassertemperaturen setzen der #Bachforelle, dem Fisch des Jahres 2024, zunehmend zu.
Als kälteliebende Art leidet sie unter #Sauerstoffmangel und

Bye, bye, Bachforelle: Hohe Wassertemperaturen setzen dem Speisefisch zu

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Sadness As a Gift
#AdrianneLenker
https://drowninginsecondperson.bandcamp.com/track/sadness-as-a-gift-adrianne-lenker-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UpXhetX1s5OXTY5fRjWvu

LKA schließt offenbar russische Einflussnahme auf Weihnachtsmarkt-Anschlag aus
Das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) in Sachsen-Anhalt hat ausgeschlossen, dass der Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarktattentäter vom russischen Geheimdienst gesteuert wurde. Das berichtet der Spiegel unter Berufung auf einen Abschlussbericht der Behörde zu der Amokfahrt am 20. Dezember 2024 mit sechs Toten und mehr als 300 Verletzten her…
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Rechtsextreme Desinformation über Anschlag in Magdeburg
Nach dem Anschlag auf den Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg haben Rechtsextreme in den sozialen Netzwerken zahlreiche Falschbehauptungen verbreitet. Auch internationale Akteure mischten dabei mit.

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
Sequoia Andrade, Philip Stark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19442 https://…

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
At least 227~bomb threats against polling places and tabulation centers were received on the day of the 2024 US presidential election. Threats disrupted voting in the swing states of Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania while law enforcement swept polling places. No bombs were found. Roughly a dozen `credible' threats were received in Georgia in DeKalb and Fulton counties, interrupting voting at eleven polling locations; there were dozens of `non-credible' threats in addition. To remediate the ef…

Fact sheet investment obligation in Swiss film production 2024
The companies required to invest achieved a relevant turnover of 752 million francs in 2024. This results in an investment obligation of 30.1 million francs, as originally estimated. The companies invested a total of 15.9 million francs in 2024. 9.3 million francs was invested in the acquisition and production
of films.
5.0 million francs went to feature-length
films and 4.2 million francs to series.
https://www.bak.admin.ch/bak/en/home/cultural-creativity/film1/fqiv/resultate-analysen.html#13_1694074815645__content_bak_en_home_kulturschaffen_film1_fqiv_resultate-analysen_jcr_content_par_tabs

Filzmaier analysiert - Ein Jahr nach der Wahl: Die große Parteienbilanz #News #Nachrichten

Good Morning #Canada
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, as of January 2025, only 38 countries recognize same-sex marriage, out of 195 recognized nations. Canada has been a leader in LGTBQ rights and, in a recent ranking, places us 5th worldwide in protecting same sex and gender affirmation. The USA ranks 23rd but is likely to drop further as the report was based on 2024 data before the MAGA morons took office.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LGTBQI
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lgbt-rights-by-country

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Jets' Jermaine Johnson II believes he can be 'trump card' in return from injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-jermaine-johnson-ii-b…

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

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

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.

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang, Yuan-Ming Hsu, Brandt Kaufmann, Chaitanya Pasupala, S. Banka, A. Dey, D. Lang, A. Meisner, J. Moustakas, A. D. Myers, E. F. Schlafly, D. J. Schlegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.2008…

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is the fourth in a series of searches (following Huang et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2021; Storfer et al. 2024, Paper I, II, & III respectively). This is the first catalog of lens candidates covering nearly the entirety of the extragalactic sky south of declination $δ\approx +32$ deg, all of it observed by the DECam, coveri…

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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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…

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
Alexandra C. Lau, Jessica R. Hoehn, Michael B. Bennett, Claudia Fracchiolla, Kathleen Hinko, Noah Finkelstein, Jacqueline Acres, Lindsey D. Anderson, Shane D. Bergin, Cherie Bornhorst, Turhan K. Carroll, Michael Gregory, Cameron Hares, E. L. Hazlett, Meghan Healy, Erik A Herman, Lindsay R. House, Michele W. McColgan, Brad McLain, Azar Panah, Sarah A. Perdue, Jonathan D. Perry, …

Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
In order to reach the full civic and scientific potential of physics, this white paper calls for a culture change in physics to recognize informal physics education (also referred to as public engagement or outreach) as an essential disciplinary practice. That is, engaging in informal physics education (IPE) is part of what it means to ''do physics.'' In June 2024, we hosted a summit with forty-two members of the Joint Network for Informal Physics Education and Research (JNIPER) to discuss conc…

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
K. Castillo, G. Gordillo-N\'u\~nez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20646 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
In Lett. Math. Phys. 114, 54 (2024) and 115, 70 (2025), the author introduces what is presented as a novel method for determining whether a sequence of orthogonal polynomials is "classical", based solely on its initial recurrence coefficients. This note demonstrates that all the results contained in those works are already encompassed by two general theorems previously established in J. Math. Anal. Appl. 515 (2022), Article 126390. A symbolic algorithm, implemented in Mathematica, is also provi…

Predicting Qualification Thresholds in UEFA's incomplete round-robin tournaments via a Dixon and Coles Model
David Winkelmann, Rouven Michels, Christian Deutscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20075

Predicting Qualification Thresholds in UEFA's incomplete round-robin tournaments via a Dixon and Coles Model
In the 2024/25 season, UEFA introduced the incomplete round-robin format in the Champions League and Europa League, replacing the traditional group stage with a single league phase table of all 36 teams. Now, the top eight qualify directly for the round of 16, while teams ranked 9th-24th enter a play-off round. Existing simulation-based analyses, such as those by Opta, provide guidance on points presumably needed for qualification but show discrepancies when compared to actual outcomes in the f…

White rose, covered in water droplets. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #maryandjosephretreatcenter #ranchopalosverdes #rose

🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-AI 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence within the NREN community is here.
SIG-AI brings the Research & Education community together to share expertise, best practices, and explore practical use cases of AI in NREN context—from cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to network automation and next-generation networks.
📖 For more insights, read the full interview with Leonie Schäfer (@…

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…

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
Arkadiusz Lipiecki, Kaja Bilinska, Nicolaos Kourentzes, Rafal Weron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11372

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
We introduce the concept of temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF) in predicting day-ahead electricity prices and show that reconciling forecasts for hourly products, 2- to 12-hour blocks, and baseload contracts significantly (up to 13%) improves accuracy at all levels. These results remain consistent throughout a challenging 4-year test period (2021-2024) in the German power market and across model architectures, including linear regression, a shallow neural network, gradient boosting, and a s…

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

Q&A with Oura CEO Tom Hale on why many CEOs love its rings, competition from Apple, and more; Oura sold 2.5M rings in 2024 and expects $1B revenue in 2025 (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/business/oura-ring-tom-hale.html

Oura Heath’s C.E.O. Knows the Secret to Better Sleep
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.

One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential
Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Arpit R. Patel, Aveek Sarkar, Aaditya Sarda, Tinkal Ladiya, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Parashar, Pranav R. Adhyaru, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Piyush Sharma, Abhishek J. Verma, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Swar…

One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential
The SupraThermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS), a subsystem of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) onboard India's Aditya-L1 satellite, is designed to study different aspects of energetic particles in the interplanetary medium from the Sun-Earth L1 point using six detector units oriented in different directions. This article presents details of the one-year operation (08 January 2024 - 28 February 2025) of the AL1-ASPEX-STEPS after the insertion of the satellite into…

A profile of Ant International, Ant Group's cross-border payments unit using AI and blockchain for treasury management, which handled $1.1T in cash flow in 2024 (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…