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Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

Highlands Suite
Inspired by the beautiful land of Scotland...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

(2018, free PDF download) Retinal prosthesis: A clinical guide to successful implementation (Essentials in ophthalmology) by Mark S. Humayun https://unitedvrg.com/2024/11/09/retinal-prosthesis-a-clini…

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

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

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

Soderle, und hier haben wir nun auch noch die kumulative Grafik mit der Anzahl der Balkonkraftwerke.
Hab noch den Endpunkt rangebastelt, damit man die Summe sieht.
Von der diese Woche vermeldeten Million sind wir zumindest offiziell noch etwas entfernt, wobei Sebastian ja von einer hohen Dunkelziffer ausgeht.
Wieso haben wir eigentlich eine Dunkelziffer? Faulheit? Ungenehmigt?
#Balkonkraftwerke

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

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

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…

Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing a $2T market cap in February 2024 and $3T in June 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.

Cowboys minicamp: Jake Ferguson, George Pickens shine on Day 2; ping pong duels intensify https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6419759/2025/06/12/cowboys-minicamp-george-pickens-jake-ferguson-parsons/

Es ging doch nur darum, das Rezept für den übelst lekkeren Hefezopf, der immer bei den F-Runden serviert wird, vor den Grühünen geheim zu halten! 🥹
#FDP #Lindner
Quelle:

Digging My Way Out
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-way-out-nowplaying/

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Very interesting talks at the #SolarEclipse Conference - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - in Belgium I am attending online: here is the key result by Luca Quaglia who had reported his work in great detail in the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac1279 (2021), https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2022_2.pdf#page=3 (2022) and https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_4.pdf#page=3 (2024) already. There seems to be NO way by now to escape the conclusion the the solar - i.e. photospheric - diameter used by many in the past (and various eclipse map calculations sites still today) is too small. So everyone should use Quaglia's free precision tools at https://www.besselianelements.com instead to get the real length of totality at one's observing spot. And when you are observing at the edges of the totality zone the tools will tell you where the actual border is: traditional maps can the off by some margin! 1/n

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
Emad Chaparian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06184 https://arxiv.or…

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids is proposed. Different regimes of yield-stress fluid flow in porous media can be categorised based on the Bingham number (i.e. the ratio of the yield stress to the characteristic viscous stress). In a recent study (Chaparian, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 980, A14, 2024), we addressed the yield/plastic limit (infinitely large Bingham number), namely, the onset of percolation when the applied pressure gradient is just sufficient to overcome the yield…

Comparing observations of the closely located JUICE and STEREO-A spacecraft during the widespread solar energetic particle event of 2024 May 13
L. Rodr\'iguez-Garc\'ia, E. Palmerio, M. Pinto, N. Dresing, C. M. S. Cohen, R. G\'omez-Herrero, J. Gieseler, F. Santos, F. Espinosa Lara, I. Cernuda, M. Mewes, C. Vallat, O. Witasse, N. Altobelli
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Comparing observations of the closely located JUICE and STEREO-A spacecraft during the widespread solar energetic particle event of 2024 May 13
JUICE was launched in April 2023, and it is now in its cruise phase to Jupiter, where it is scheduled to arrive in July 2031. JUICE carries a radiation monitor, namely the RADiation hard Electron Monitor (RADEM) to measure protons, electrons, and ions, detecting particles coming mainly from the anti-Sun direction. On 2024 May 13, a large solar energetic particle (SEP) event took place in association with an eruption close to the western limb of the Sun as seen from Earth. Providentially, at tha…

Finally, there'll be weekend transit service to Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland once AC Transit's service changes launch on August 10
https://hikingbytransit.com/2024/09/14/realign/

What does AC Transit Realign mean for recreational access in the East Bay? - Hiking by Transit
Trailheads that are convenient to get to by bus, train, or ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area

Any suggestions OTHER than upgrading to AlmaLinux 9 to fix these kind of issues with ansible? Ansible server is Alma 10, but I have a few v8 boxes and mostly v9. "FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3.9 (3.9.20 (main, Oct 23 2024, 09:34:14) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-22)]). Please install `python3-dnf` package or ensure you have specified the correct ansible_python_interpreter. " ?? …

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 …

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

»Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games«
You don't always have to be online or watch TV to entertain yourself ;)
🎲 https://wizardsrespite.com/2024/02/13/solo-rpgs-a-breakdown-of-single-player-role-playi…

Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games - Wizard's Respite
Take a close look at the solo RPGs. Discover their history, how they evolved over the years, and what they are today.

Happy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
https://

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

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

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

Finance Friends
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Finance Friends | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Finance Friends Host: Fabian Ruggieri Category: Business Sub-Category: Finance & Investing First Episode: 2024 Imagine getting insider knowledge from industry leaders every week.

I am hoping to do 1,000 miles on the bike this year. It's still June and I'm at 650 (surpassing the 620 for all of 2024.) I also did 120 this month which is the most miles I've done in a single month. I am glad I started riding and try to do it daily.
#biking #bikeTooter

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Rund 3000 #Hitzetote im Sommer 2024 zeigen, wie gefährlich extreme #Temperaturen sein können.
Beim #Hitzeaktionstag in

3000 Hitzetote in Deutschland in nur einem Sommer: Hamm mit Hinweisen und Schutz
3000 Hitzetote in Deutschland in nur einem Sommer – diese Zahl erschreckte beim Hitzeaktionstag in Hamm. Es geht um Gefahren und Schutzmaßnahmen.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00277 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Domination of Exit Times for Random Walks and Brownian Motion with Drift
In this note, by an elementary use of Girsanov's transform we show that the exit time for either a biased random walk or a drifted Brownian motion on a symmetric interval is stochastically monotone with respect to the drift parameter. In the random walk case, this gives an alternative proof of a recent result of E. Peköz and R. Righter in 2024. Our arguments in both discrete and continuous cases are parallel to each other. We also outline a simple SDE proof for the Brownian case based on a sta…

How Has Raiders' Malcolm Koonce Looked in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/malcolm-koonce-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-las-vegas

Bradley Chubb: Dolphins 'were lying' about culture change last year https://www.nfl.com/news/bradley-chubb-dolphins-were-lying-about-culture-change-last-year

For those with a Twitter (X) account, there is a fun little discussion thread between me, myself and #AI (Grok, ChatGPT) about whether Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will work for congenitally blind people to see. https://

Grok (@grok) on X
@NotOpCue @elonmusk @neuralink Neuralink's brain-computer interface aims to help disabled individuals by connecting the brain to computers. It has enabled quadriplegics, like Noland Arbaugh, to control devices such as a computer mouse or play chess using thoughts alone, as shown in 2024 trials. The Blindsight

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

Cowboys Pro Bowler Aiming for Rebound After Struggling in 2024 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/pro-bowler-rebound-after-struggling-in-2024/?adt_ei=[email]

Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
Fivos Kalogiannis, Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Ian Gemp, Georgios Piliouras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16120

Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
We contribute the first provable guarantees of global convergence to Nash equilibria (NE) in two-player zero-sum convex Markov games (cMGs) by using independent policy gradient methods. Convex Markov games, recently defined by Gemp et al. (2024), extend Markov decision processes to multi-agent settings with preferences that are convex over occupancy measures, offering a broad framework for modeling generic strategic interactions. However, even the fundamental min-max case of cMGs presents signi…

Coronal spectra of the 2024 Total #SolarEclipse with the ALIMAS and UV-PAMIS spectrographs flown on a WB-57 plane - as explained in https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1645372 with the plane in question in https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14562/ - shown by Adalbert Ding at the SEC. 18/n

Chiefs' Travis Kelce reportedly cuts 25 pounds in offseason after career-worst receiving campaign

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24586 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
E. Langmann, J. Lenells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16503 https://arx…

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
We study an extension of the 2D Fermi--Hubbard model, which was recently introduced in [Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263402 (2024)] and shown to describe altermagnetism that can be studied in cold atom systems. Using an updated Hartree--Fock method that can detect instabilities towards phase separation, we show that the model is in a mixed phase in large parts of the parameter regime at half-filling. We argue that the occurrence of a mixed phase is an indication of exotic physics which, in…

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Aaisha Be, Nachiketa Mishra, Debasisha Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15326 https://

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Very recently, Bai [Linear Algebra Appl., 681:150-186, 2024 \& Appl. Math. Lett., 166:109510, 2025] studied some concrete structures, and obtained essential algebraic and computational properties of the one-dimensional, two-dimensional and generalized Wasserstein-1 metric matrices. This article further studies some algebraic and computational properties of these classes of matrices. Specifically, it provides lower and upper bounds on the $1,2,\infty$-norms of these matrices, their inverses, and…

The chemical yields of stars in the range 9-15 Msun
Marco Limongi, Lorenzo Roberti, Agnese Falla, Alessandro Chieffi, Ken'ichi Nomoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22030

The chemical yields of stars in the range 9-15 Msun
In Limongi et al. (2024) we presented and discussed the main evolutionary properties and final fate of stars in the mass range 7-15 Msun. The evolutions of those models were computed by means of a medium size nuclear network that guaranteed a proper calculation of the nuclear energy generation and hence a good modeling of the physical evolution of these stars. In the present paper, we extend this study by computing the detailed chemical yields of stars in the mass range 9-15 Msun, i.e., those s…

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

Mailbag: How important is a good start to season? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-important-is-a-good-start-to-season

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
Koichiro Yawata, Ryo Sakuma, Kai Fukami, Kunihiko Taira, Hiroya Nakao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12777

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
We present a machine-learning method for data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns in reaction-diffusion systems. Based on the phase autoencoder [Yawata {\it et al.}, Chaos {\bf 34}, 063111 (2024)], we map high-dimensional field variables of the reaction-diffusion system to low-dimensional latent variables characterizing the asymptotic phase and amplitudes of the field variables. This yields a reduced phase description of the limit cycle underlying the rhythmic spatiotempo…

Trotz mehr Personal bleibt der #Antragsstau beim #Windkraft-Ausbau in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hoch.
2024 wurden zwar mehr Genehmigungen erteilt, ans Netz gingen aber nur 16 Anlagen. Über 1.150 #Windräder

Genehmigungsstau und Untätigkeitsklagen: Ausbau der Windkraftanlagen in MV trotz mehr Personal zu langsam
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern steht und fällt der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien besonders bei Windkraftanlagen mit der Geschwindigkeit der Baugehmigungen. Trotz personeller Aufstockung in den Ämtern sei der Antragsstau laut Umweltminister Till Backhaus (SPD) aber kaum verringert worden.

For when you're #fasting but you want to eat and still not break your fast. 🙄
(Part of a #menu at a #restaurant in #Udupi #Karnataka #India; from Dec. 14, 2024)
#food #diet #strategy