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Yeah, you'll easily get a $4T market cap when you sell your latest consumer graphics card for more money than sense!
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114823643634356944

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
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Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
Oliver J. Roberts, Philip Kaaret, M. Lynne Saade, Chien-Ting Chen, Steven R. Ehlert, Ioannis Liodakis, Martin C. Weisskopf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05571

NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
PSR B1259-63 is a well studied TeV binary, with an energetic pulsar in orbit around a Be star. Using NuSTAR observations during the 2024 passage of the pulsar through the circumstellar disk, we find the spectrum to be the most energetic ($Γ$ = 1.5) around 27 days after periastron, during the first of two variable, short-term emission episodes of a contemporaneous GeV flare. We discuss the variability in the X-ray flux and the hardening of the spectrum with time, and in the context of previous …

from my link log —
I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize.
https://consteval.ca/2024/07/03/initialization/
saved 2024-07-05

I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize | consteval

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
- When I broke my ankle last year, I had no idea how much it would affect me -
#creativity #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

https://apnews.com/article/swatting-plot-thomasz-szabo-60de50b8bf1dd35b3ea403072a58f1cd
Romanian man pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ plot that targeted an ex-US president and lawmakers

Romanian man pleads guilty to 'swatting' plot that targeted US lawmakers
A Romanian citizen has pleaded guilty to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress. Thomas Szabo, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 23 by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington. Szabo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of making bomb threats. He was extradited from Romania in November 2024 after he was indicte…

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

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

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

☀️ Deutschlands Strom wird grüner: 2024 kamen fast 63 % des erzeugten Stroms aus Erneuerbaren Energien.
#Windkraft lieferte im Winter besonders viel, #Solarenergie brillierte im Sommer. Beim #Windkraft

Energiewende: So viel Strom kam gestern aus erneuerbaren Energien
Bis 2030 sollen insgesamt 80 Prozent des produzierten Stroms in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien kommen. Daten zeigen, wie der Strommix aktuell aussieht und welche Rolle der importierte Strom spielt.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Superfunk feat. Ron Carroll:
🎵 Lucky Star
#NowPlaying #Superfunk #RonCarroll
https://akalex.bandcamp.com/track/superfunk-ron-carroll-akalex-lucky-star-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/18nfehYgwp7UvlshiRP5jD

Raiders 2025 Outlook: Can Michael Mayer Have a Bounce-Back Season? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/03/raiders-2025-outlook-michael-mayer-season/

from my link log —
The ATS programming language: unleashing the potential of types and templates!
https://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/atslangweb/
saved 2024-11-02

Solar Surface Magnetic Field Simulation from 2010 to 2024 and Anomalous Southern Poleward Flux Transport in Cycle 24
Ruihui Wang, Jie Jiang, Yukun Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01416

Solar Surface Magnetic Field Simulation from 2010 to 2024 and Anomalous Southern Poleward Flux Transport in Cycle 24
The solar surface magnetic field is fundamental for modeling the coronal magnetic field, studying the solar dynamo, and predicting solar cycle strength. We perform a continuous simulation of the surface magnetic field from 2010 to 2024, covering solar cycle 24 and the ongoing cycle 25, using the surface flux transport model with assimilated observed active regions (ARs) as the source. The simulation reproduces the evolution of the axial dipole strength, polar field reversal timing, and magnetic…

To Grok: "Why is Neuralink so vague about their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, describing it as technology to "generate visual perception" - even unpatterned flashes of light qualify as such?" https://x.com/i/grok/share/vI84HuktzHHh093wRbd6YzHXl …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02274 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Hyperpolygonal arrangements
In 2024, Bellamy, Craw, Rayan, Schedler, and Weiss introduced a particular family of real hyperplane arrangements stemming from hyperpolygonal spaces associated with certain quiver varieties which we thus call hyperpolygonal arrangements $\mathcal H_n$. In this note we study these arrangements and investigate their properties systematically. Remarkably the arrangements $\mathcal H_n$ discriminate between essentially all local properties of arrangements. In addition we show that hyperpolygonal a…

#osnabruck #FFFOS
05.06.2025 | 13:00 Uhr
Vorsitzender Strafrichter Dr. Koring am Amtsgericht ist heute aktiv.
Der 48-jährige Angeklagte soll im Oktober 2024 als Fahrer eines PKWs auf eine #Fahrraddemonstration

Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

I am enjoying the audio/book “Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh. I think the book won the 2024 Hugo Awards.

from my link log —
Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries, and how to fix them.
https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html
saved 2024-05-28

e-GAI: e-value-based Generalized $\alpha$-Investing for Online False Discovery Rate Control
Yifan Zhang, Zijian Wei, Haojie Ren, Changliang Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01452

e-GAI: e-value-based Generalized $α$-Investing for Online False Discovery Rate Control
Online multiple hypothesis testing has attracted a lot of attention in many applications, e.g., anomaly status detection and stock market price monitoring. The state-of-the-art generalized $α$-investing (GAI) algorithms can control online false discovery rate (FDR) on p-values only under specific dependence structures, a situation that rarely occurs in practice. The e-LOND algorithm (Xu & Ramdas, 2024) utilizes e-values to achieve online FDR control under arbitrary dependence but suffers from …

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
Mina Dalirrooyfard, Konstantin Makarychev, Slobodan Mitrovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01830

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
We present a new Correlation Clustering algorithm for a dynamic setting where nodes are added one at a time. In this model, proposed by Cohen-Addad, Lattanzi, Maggiori, and Parotsidis (ICML 2024), the algorithm uses database queries to access the input graph and updates the clustering as each new node is added. Our algorithm has the amortized update time of $O_ε(\log^{O(1)}(n))$. Its approximation factor is $20+\varepsilon$, which is a substantial improvement over the approximation factor of t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

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

Gr\"obner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $\lambda$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-\lambda\}$
H. Alhussein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01614

Gröbner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $λ$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-λ\}$
It is known that if $A$ is a finite-dimensional unital algebra equipped with a Rota-Baxter operator $R$ of weight $λ$, then spectrum of $R$ is a subset of $\{0,-λ\}$. We are interested on finding all consequences of the Rota-Baxter relation and the relation of the form $R^k(R+λ{\rm id})^l = 0$. In 2024, H.~Qiu, S. Zheng, Y. Dan solved this problem for $k = l = 1$ and $λ\neq0$. We find a Gröbner-Shirshov basis of the ideal generated by these two relations in general case.

Won't it be a surprise when it turns out that the party of bad losers, who've been trying to convince everyone that they could only have been beaten with election fraud for years, turns out to be the primary source of election fraud?
https…

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

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

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

Not looking good #showyourstripes #climatechange #ClimateCrisis

Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Yuanyue Pan, Renxin Xu, Yong Chen, Mingyu Ge, Yue Huang, Shumei Jia, Xiaobo Li, Liming Song, Jinlu Qu, Shu Zhang, Lian Tao, Hua Feng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Maurizio Falanga
https:…

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5$-$90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spi…

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Mengqi Wang, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20199

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion recognition. Inspired by the SLT 2024 GenSER Challenge, this study investigates approaches to improving conversational emotion recognition (CER) by LLMs. Specifically, we explore how to retrieve high-quality examples in in-context learning (ICL) to enhance CER…

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Peijin Zhang, Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Xingyao Chen, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D'Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jaco…

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Measuring plasma parameters in the upper solar corona and inner heliosphere is challenging because of the region's weakly emissive nature and inaccessibility for most in situ observations. Radio imaging of broadened and distorted background astronomical radio sources during solar conjunction can provide unique constraints for the coronal material along the line of sight. In this study, we present radio spectral imaging observations of the Crab Nebula (Tau A) from June 9 to June 22, 2024 when it…

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
W. K. Tobiska, B. Hogan, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, J. Bailey, K. Drumm, K. Wahl, A. Sosnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00887

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
The validation of a strategy for aviation radiation hazard mitigation in development for decades has been completed using two commercial airline flights in 2024 and 2025. This article provides a historical review of the primary elements leading to that strategy, including the building of aviation radiation awareness and collaborative efforts by global aviation and radiological bodies that established mitigation standards. The validation of an ALARA strategy was accomplished using two UAL 990 fl…

Worst to first for 49ers? Ranking 8 last-place teams’ chances to win division in 2025 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/worst-first-49ers-ranking-8-last-place-teams-chances-win-division-2025

from my link log —
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
saved 2025-05-21

TOC Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) 7.1, 7.2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069347/toc-hualin-international-journal-buddhist-studies-hijbs-71-72

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, C. Moutou, A. L'Heureux, N. J. Cook, E. Artigau, S. H. P. Alencar, E. Gaidos, A. Vidotto, P. Petit, A. Carmona, T. Ray, the SPIRou science team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01746

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
In this paper we revisit our spectropolarimetric and velocimetric analysis of the young M dwarf AU Mic based on data collected with SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, over a monitoring period of 2041 d from 2019 to 2024. The longitudinal magnetic field, the small-scale magnetic field, and the differential temperature of AU Mic, derived from the unpolarized and circularly-polarized spectra, were clearly modulated with the stellar rotation period, with a pattern that evolved over time.…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 539 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29461 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
GVD Collaboration, V. A. Allakhverdyan, A. D. Avrorin, A. V. Avrorin, V. M. Aynutdinov, Z. Be\v{n}u\v{s}ov\'a, I. A. Belolaptikov, E. A. Bondarev, I. V. Borina, N. M. Budnev, V. A. Chadymov, A. S. Chepurnov, V. Y. Dik, A. N. Dmitrieva, G. V. Domogatsky, A. A. Doroshenko, R. Dvornick\'y, A. N. Dyachok, Zh. -A. M. Dzhilkibaev, E. Eckerov\'a, T. …

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
We present an updated measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux using Baikal-GVD cascade data collected between April 2018 to March 2024. In this period, the detector grew from 15% to 55% of its baseline cubic kilometer configuration. The diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux is detected with a statistical significance of 5.1 $σ$. Assuming a single power law model of the astrophysical neutrino flux with identical contribution from each neutrino flavor, the following best-fit paramet…

A Combined Parallel-in-time Direct Inverse (ParaDIn)-Parareal Method for Nonlinear Differential Equations
Subhash Paudel, Nail K. Yamaleev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10820

A Combined Parallel-in-time Direct Inverse (ParaDIn)-Parareal Method for Nonlinear Differential Equations
As has been shown in our previous work, the parallel-in-time direct inverse (ParaDIn) method introduced by Yamaleev and Paudel in (arXiv: 2406.00878v1, 2024) imposes some constraint on the maximum number of time levels, $N_t$, that can be integrated in parallel. To circumvent this problem and further increase the speedup, we combine the ParaDIn method with the Parareal algorithm to efficiently parallelize the first-order time derivative term in nonlinear partial differential equations discretiz…

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…

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

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://