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El Cheeto is tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
He says, of course, that he isn't. But he is.
And he promises to preserve historical elements and artifacts.
But he won't - does anyone remember when he was trying to get New York to allow him to build the horrid "trump tower" on the site of the then existing Bonwitt Teller building (a building full of and covered by art deco works)?
Well back then El Cheat-o promised to preserve those Bonw…

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

No Words – #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=mu…

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
Mohamed Abouagour, Eleftherios Garyfallidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14006 https://

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
We introduce ResPlan, a large-scale dataset of 17,000 detailed, structurally rich, and realistic residential floor plans, created to advance spatial AI research. Each plan includes precise annotations of architectural elements (walls, doors, windows, balconies) and functional spaces (such as kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms). ResPlan addresses key limitations of existing datasets such as RPLAN (Wu et al., 2019) and MSD (van Engelenburg et al., 2024) by offering enhanced visual fidelity and gre…

US Army major general who has been director of operations of UN Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command & US Forces Korea since July 2024 uses ChatGPT to make command decisions. 🤦‍♂️
A threat to the safety of South Korea and the US.
https://

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

WATCH: Bears DC Dennis Allen gives fiery speech after win over Saints, the team that fired him in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-b

The Value of Finance Journals
Douglas Cumming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14301

The Value of Finance Journals
I present data from SCImago, 1999-2024, on factors that affect the valuation of finance journals. The SCImago data show some interesting facts; for example, in 2024, Finance Research Letters, valued at \$16.5 million, was four times more valuable than the Journal of Financial Economics (\$4.1m), five times more valuable than the Review of Financial Studies (\$3.3m), and over seven times more valuable than the Journal of Finance (\$2.3m). The data show that quality, as proxied by citations, posi…

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.

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 …

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

from my link log —
Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference/
saved 2024-10-17 https…

Habe mich heute sehr darüber gefreut zu hören, dass @… das Problem #Impressumspflicht schon eine ganze Weile deutlich thematisiert.
Weil mich das nämlich auch schon eine Weile beschäftigt:

Russians with spy ties behind 2024 parcel explosions in Europe, Lithuania says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russians-with-spy-ties-behind.html

Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/revolut-backers-near-en…

Orbital
Samantha Harvey
A single day in space. A quasi-journal from six character perspectives. Enjoyed the details about space: sleeping, cleaning, noise, routines, huge weather events...
Not sure I'm remember it in x amount of time.
#TheBookerPrize 2024
#SamanthaHarvey

"September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record
Only September 2023 and September 2024 were warmer.

Cowboys-Commanders: How to Watch, Listen, Stream https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-commanders-how-to-watch-listen-stream-x7314

It's #GrindayFriday, and this week is local Phoenix, Arizona grind/powerviolence duo LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and their 2024 EP 'For the Culture' via No Time Records. The separate tracks of the EP have all been merged into one here-- just over 10 minutes total. Great riffs, brutality, insanity, a few samples that actually still crack me up (Carrey and Farley). A lot to dig on this one.

Pew: Trump has lost 30% of his young 2024 voters | Weekly roundup for August 17, 2025 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/pew-trump-has-lost-30-of-his-young
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p26#a250817p26

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
Kaveh Mousavand, Charles Paquette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11789 https://arxiv.org/p…

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
This manuscript treats the diverse applications of bricks within modern representation theory and several related domains, and reviews the recent developments and new results on bricks (a.k.a Schur representations). The current survey is an extended version of a mini-course by the second-named author, delivered in the research school on ``New Developments in Representation Theory of Algebras", held in November of 2024, at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan. The review is …

Our local (Savannah) cops have warned that wearing a costume that obscures identity at the No Kings rally Saturday could lead to arrest under a law originally written to stop the Ku Klux Klan from hiding under their sheets.
GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024)
https://law.justia.com/codes/ge…

Italian chicken dishes, this wine, and The Naked Gun 2025
31st Anniversary was Wednesday
#FridayNightDateNight #wine #TheNakedGun

Me había preparado para lo mšs grotesco y asqueroso que haya visto en una película antes de poner «The Substance», pero me pareció que los comentarios al respecto son muy exagerados. Sí, tiene escenas fuertes, pero nada que no se haya visto antes.
Lo importante es que es una muy buena película. Yo le doy 4★ 👉🏻 https://boxd.it/blM8HF

Exordia (2024) by Seth Dickinson is a fun romp on trolley problems if your idea of fun includes "nuke Kurdistan or else we nuke the world". Obama is president, and an alien appears in Central Park to drag some broken people into a battle over an artifact that can change the universe. These aliens have actual Original Sin, and visibly so. Humans freak out at the alien wrongness, a metaphysical brand that shows the entire alien race is doomed from birth to go to a literal hell when t…

Sources: Suno is in talks to raise $100M at a $2B valuation, quadrupling its previous valuation; it raised $125M in 2024 and is generating $100M in ARR (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/ai-musi…

Harmonizing Minds: Music Therapy in ADHD Care https://muz4now.com/2024/harmonizing-minds-music-therapy-in-adhd-care/

Harmonizing Minds: Music Therapy in ADHD Care
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Der #Marmolata-Gletscher in den #Dolomiten zieht sich weiter zurück.
Aktuelle Messungen zeigen einen durchschnittlichen Schwund von sieben Metern seit 2024 sowie eine deutliche #Ausdünnung

Dolomiten: Marmolata-Gletscher verschwindet
Italienische Glaziologinnen und Glaziologen sehen für den Marmolata-Gletscher in den Dolomiten schwarz. Im Vergleich zu 2024 hat er sich im Durchschnitt um sieben Meter zurückgezogen – begleitet von einer allgemeinen Ausdünnung der Gletscherfronten.

#Podcast-Hörempfehlung (nicht ganz unparteiisch): der @… -Podcast mit Beiträgen aus der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft und dem Stadtmuseum #Berlin zu 'k…

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Kanv Khare, Kevin Schwarz, Bradley Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13186 …

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
In 2024, the Anti-Phishing Work Group identified over one million phishing pages. Phishers achieve this scale by using phishing kits -- ready-to-deploy phishing websites -- to rapidly deploy phishing campaigns with specific data exfiltration, evasion, or mimicry techniques. In contrast, researchers and defenders continue to fight phishing on a page-by-page basis and rely on manual analysis to recognize static features for kit identification. This paper aims to aid researchers and analysts by …

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
A. Wargnier, P. N. Simon, S. Fornasier, N. El-Bez-Sebastien, D. Tirsch, K. -D. Matz, T. Gautier, A. Doressoundiram, M. A. Barucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12804

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
The goal of this study is to analyze the photometric properties of Deimos using Mars Express (MEX) observations, to improve the photometric properties and provide new insights into the texture and composition of the surface of Deimos, in preparation for the MMX mission. We analyzed the data obtained by the HRSC and the SRC cameras onboard MEX. The HRSC data, obtained through the use of four filters (blue, green, red, IR), provides 390 to 800 m/px resolution, while the SRC data reach 85 to 300 m…

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
Lachlan McGinness, Peter Baumgartner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12645 https://arxiv.org/…

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
We present a longitudinal study which evaluates the reasoning capability of frontier Large Language Models over an eighteen month period. We measured the accuracy of three leading models from December 2023, September 2024 and June 2025 on true or false questions from the PrOntoQA dataset and their faithfulness to reasoning strategies provided through in-context learning. The improvement in performance from 2023 to 2024 can be attributed to hidden Chain of Thought prompting. The introduction of …

Panthers' Derrick Brown primed for return after missing most of 2024 season with knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-derrick-brown-return-from-knee-injury-2025-preseason

Insgesamt war's ja schön mit Euch. Schade, dass es so bald vorbei ist...
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/wmo-co2-ausstoss-100.html

WMO: CO2-Konzentration in der Atmosphäre 2024 so stark gestiegen wie nie
Die Konzentration von klimaschädlichem CO2 in der Atmosphäre ist laut WMO auf einem neuen Höchststand. Der Anstieg war 2024 so stark wie noch nie - verursacht etwa durch zahlreiche Waldbrände. Das System breche zusammen.

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

UK filings: Piers Morgan's production company Wake Up Productions generated £17.1M in revenue in 2024, as he concluded his £50M, three year deal with News UK (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/piers-mo…

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Byeong-Gon Park, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron, Rados{\l}aw Poleski, Igor Soszy\'nski, Pawe{\l} Pietrukowicz, Szymon Koz{\l}ows…

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through this analysis, we found that the light curves of three events including OGLE-2024-BLG-0657, KMT-2024-BLG-2017, and KMT-2024-BLG-2480 cannot be readily interpreted using standard three-body lensing models such as a binary lens with a single source (2L1S) or a single lens with a binary source (1L2S). In this work we pre…

The Mall That Could Have Been: What Happened to Our Vision for SF Centre / Westfield Mall
https://www.kultivatelabs.org/blog/the-mall-that-could-have-been-what-happened-to-our-vision-for-sf-centre

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

Wurde 2024 gefeuert - Formel-1-Crash-Pilot gibt sein Motorsport-Comeback #News #Nachrichten

Cowboys-Commanders: How to Watch, Listen, Stream https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-commanders-how-to-watch-listen-stream-x7314

"Bromism" is when you believe too much in what tech bros say https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

SpaceX is seeking approval to nearly double rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base -- to 95 per year,
putting the company on a collision course with the California Coastal Commission
over concerns about wildlife, noise, and state oversight
That represents a sharp climb from early 2024,
when SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and working with the U.S. Air Force,
agreed to only six launches a year under a deal with the commission.

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)

The PhD Prize at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting went to Jonah Wagenveld and a current cosmology mystery - described in ample detail in the paper Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50291-24/aa50291-24.html

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Kohou Wang, Huan Hu, Xiang Liu, Zezhou Chen, Ping Chen, Zhaoxiang Liu, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13107

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
The proliferation of sophisticated deepfake technology poses significant challenges to digital security and authenticity. Detecting these forgeries, especially across a wide spectrum of manipulation techniques, requires robust and generalized models. This paper introduces the Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework (HDFF), an ensemble-based deep learning architecture designed for high-performance facial forgery detection. Our framework integrates four diverse pre-trained sub-models, Swin-MLP, CoAtNe…

Two teenage suspected Scattered Spider members charged in UK over TfL hack https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-teenage-suspects-arrested-britain-nca

It's shocking to me that the guy who was a useless councilmember (and council president) in Seattle for more than a decade also turned out to be a useless Mayor. Absolutely shocking! https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115327462564038876

Democracy on the March... into the abyss...
In today's news, a rather small fish in the world of voting systems swallows a whale.
This reporter wonders: Who provided the funding for this acquisition?
"Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official"
htt…

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

Measurement of the $e^ e^-\to\eta\gamma$ cross section near the $\phi(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
SND Collaboration, M. N. Achasov, A. E. Alizzi, A. Yu. Barnyakov, E. V. Bedarev, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin, A. G. Bogdanchikov, A. A. Botov, D. E. Chistyakov, T. V. Dimova, V. P. Druzhinin, L. V. Kardapoltsev, A. S. Kasaev, A. A. Kattsin, A. G. Kharlamov, I. A. Koop, A. A. Korol, D. P. Kovrizhin, A. S. Kupich, A. P. Kryukov, N. A. Melnikova, N. Yu. Muchnoi, A. E. Obrazo…

Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section near the $ϕ(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider, the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section is measured in the energy range $E = 980 - 1060$ MeV. The measurement is carried out in the $η\to 2γ$ decay mode. Data with an integrated luminosity of 73 pb$^{-1}$ collected in 2018 and 2024 are used in the analysis. The measured cross section is the most accurate to date and is higher compared to other measurements. From the fit to the cross section data with the vector meson domina…

"Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024"
#Rivers #Water #Climate #ClimateChange

How the Broncos quickly overcame the Russell Wilson disaster to become a contender https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46616201/denver-broncos-build-contender-russell-wilson-trade-release-85-million-dead-money

Learning to Mitigate Post-Outage Load Surges: A Data-Driven Framework for Electrifying and Decarbonizing Grids
Wenlong Shi, Dingwei Wang, Liming Liu, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08357

Learning to Mitigate Post-Outage Load Surges: A Data-Driven Framework for Electrifying and Decarbonizing Grids
Electrification and decarbonization are transforming power system demand and recovery dynamics, yet their implications for post-outage load surges remain poorly understood. Here we analyze a metropolitan-scale heterogeneous dataset for Indianapolis comprising 30,046 feeder-level outages between 2020 and 2024, linked to smart meters and submetering, to quantify the causal impact of electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps (HPs) and distributed energy resources (DERs) on restoration surges. Statistica…

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

No Words – #NoWords #inspiration #photography https://

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

After typhoon 🌀 Yagi in 2024, the north of #Vietnam faced yet another unprecedented storm. #climatechange
People take hours and hours to get to their families, they swim, the strand.

I just saw an animation showing the evolution of the number of artificial satellites in orbit around Earth:
- 1957: 1
- 1960: 10
- 1965: 100
- 1996: 1'000
- 2016: 2'000
- 2024: 10'000
- 2025: 14'000

Cowboys rumored NFL trade deadline target now unlikely to get shopped https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rumored-nfl-trade-deadline-target-unlikely-shopped

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Hey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (https://doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198331)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Gefei Cai, Haoyu Liu, Baojun Wu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05850 https://…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical $q$-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized pr…

Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (Ramon Royandoyan/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean…

Philippine startups ride funding boom, but growing pains remain
Red tape and lack of big-ticket exits put brake on ecosystem momentum

A hidden benefit of incomplete round-robin tournaments: Encouraging offensive play
L\'aszl\'o Csat\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13141 https://…

A hidden benefit of incomplete round-robin tournaments: Encouraging offensive play
This paper aims to explore the impact of tournament design on the incentives of the contestants. We develop a simulation framework to quantify the potential gain and loss from attacking based on changes in the probability of reaching the critical ranking thresholds. The model is applied to investigate the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League reform. The novel incomplete round-robin league phase is found to create more powerful incentives for offensive play than the previous group stage, with an averag…

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
Generich H. Capuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09530

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
The environments of severe thunderstorms that produced hail were examined using 171 proximity soundings (2005-2024) archived in the 3rd Data Release of Project SWAP. These soundings were categorized based on their geographical occurrence into three hail-prone environments across Luzon, Philippines. For each case, key parameters describing instability, vertical wind structure, and moisture were calculated to assess their relationship to hail formation. The probability of hail occurrence, express…

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

What drives 'psycho' Christian McCaffrey, whose return has rejuvenated the 49ers? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6642128/2025/09/19/christian-mccaffrey-49ers-healthy-2025/

Der Autokraten-Code - #ARD Documentar Film
#Trailer
#Documentaire:
#AI

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
#inspiration #marimba
https://muz4now.com/2024/he…

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Ottavio Khalifa, Viet-Thi Tran, Alan Balendran, Fran\c{c}ois Petit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07885

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Objective: To provide an overview of clustering methods for categorical time series (CTS), a data structure commonly found in epidemiology, sociology, biology, and marketing, and to support method selection in regards to data characteristics. Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, from inception up to November 2024 to identify articles that propose and evaluate clustering techniques for CTS. Methods were classified according to three major families -- distance-based,…

The World Shipping Council launches an AI tool to scan millions of bookings in real time to identify risks of cargo fires, which reached a decade-high in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e9c70f1-af80-4e9b-8171-59b1ad54aaf6

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive imminent impactor 2024 RW$_1$
Ingebretsen, Bolin, Jedicke, Vere\v{s}, Chen, Lisse, McMillan, Sutherland, Townsend

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS $\zeta$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Davit Gondauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02966

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS + $ζ$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Inflation forecasting is a core socio-economic challenge in modern macroeconomic modeling, especially when cyclical, structural, and shock factors act simultaneously. Traditional systems such as FPAS and ARIMA often struggle with cyclical asymmetry and unexpected fluctuations. This study proposes a hybrid framework (FPAS + $ζ$) that integrates a structural macro model (FPAS) with cyclical components derived from the Riemann zeta function $ζ(1/2 + i t)$. Using Georgia's macro data (2005-2024),…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Monthly mean carbon dioxide as measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii.
July 2025:    
427.87. ppm
July 2024:    
425.55 ppm
The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Trends in CO2 - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

A 50-min coronal kink oscillation and its possible photospheric counterpart
Sihui Zhong, Valery M. Nakariakov, Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12527 https://

A 50-min coronal kink oscillation and its possible photospheric counterpart
A coronal loop of 290~Mm length, observed at 171~Å with SDO/AIA on February 6th 2024 near AR 13571, is found to oscillate with two significantly different oscillation periods, $48.8 \pm 6.1$~min and $4.8\pm 0.3$~min. The oscillations occur in the time intervals without detected flares or eruptions. Simultaneously, near the Northern footpoint of the oscillating loop, we detect a $49.6 \pm 5.0$-min periodic variation of the average projected photospheric magnetic field observed with SDO/HMI. The…

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
Alison Gon\c{c}alves Schemitt (PUCRS), Henrique Fan da Silva (UNIPAMPA), Roben Castagna Lunardi (PUCRS, IFRS), Diego Kreutz (UNIPAMPA), Rodrigo Brand\~ao Mansilha (UNIPAMPA), Avelino Francisco Zorzo (PUCRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09271

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
The advent of quantum computing threatens the security of traditional encryption algorithms, motivating the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardized several PQC algorithms, marking an important milestone in the transition toward quantum-resistant security. Blockchain systems fundamentally rely on cryptographic primitives to guarantee data integrity and transaction authenticity. However, widely used algorithms…

Trey Hendrickson trade rumors: Breaking down whether 2024 NFL sack leader will play for Bengals in Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

"Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Reindeers

Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds
In 2024, as unpredictable rains, snow and heat beat down on Finland’s Arctic, reindeer struggled to secure food sources, say Indigenous Sámi herders who shuffle their packs from one grazing ground to another. According to researchers, this is an example of the much larger problem the species faces. Due to climate change, a recent study […]

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 …

Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, a jump from the $150M fund it closed in February 2024 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack…

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
#inspiration #Sounds4MusicMaking
https://muz4no…

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login".
https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/
saved 2024-05-27

Investigation of Low-Energy Particle Remnants in High-Energy Collisions at the LHC with a Skipper-CCD detector
Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Santiago E. Perez, Nicola Bacchetta, Nuria Castello-Mor, Juan Estrada, Marcos Fernandez Garcia, Petra Merkel, Maria Perez Martinez, Dario Rodrigues, Javier Tiffenberg, Rocio Vilar Cortabitarte
https://…

Investigation of Low-Energy Particle Remnants in High-Energy Collisions at the LHC with a Skipper-CCD detector
We deployed MOSKITA $\sim$33 m away from the CMS collision point, the first skipper-CCD detector probing low-energy particles produced in high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this work, we search for beam-related events using data collected in 2024 during beam-on and beam-off periods. The dataset corresponds to integrated luminosities of 113.3 fb$^{-1}$ and 1.54 nb$^{-1}$ for the proton-proton and Pb-Pb collision periods, respectively. We report observed event rates in …

Mordprozess in Tirol - Geständnis: „Bin schuld, dass meine Mama tot ist“ #News #Nachrichten

Healing Inergy - inward energy and recovery -
Part of my saga to recover from a broken ankle last year...
#healing #recovery
htt…

Healing Inergy - inward energy and recovery
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
J. B\"atz, M. Mugrauer, K. -U. Michel, J. Reichert, A. Tschirschky, L. Pietsch, F. Edelmann, R. Neuh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09772

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
We present new radial velocity measurements of 13 selected intermediate mass stars (2 - 6 M$_\odot$). The measurements were performed between 29 April and 6 September 2024 at the University Observatory Jena using the échelle spectrograph FLECHAS. The radial velocity of eight stars was found to be constant during our spectroscopic monitoring, namely: 17 Dra A, HD 148374, HD 169487 A, 57 Cnc, $γ$ And, HD 11031, $κ$ And, and $λ$ Cas. In contrast, the radial velocity of five stars showed signif…

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…

from my link log —
Bril: an intermediate language for teaching compilers.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
saved 2024-07-27

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity https://muz4now.com/2024/have-a-plan-10-tips-for-boosting-productivity/

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
Samuel W. Yee, Patrick Tamburo, Gudmundur Stef\'ansson, Juliana Garc\'ia-Mej\'ia, David Charbonneau, Khalid Barkaoui, Karen A. Collins, Richard P. Schwarz, Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Benjamin J. Fulton, Fei Dai
https://arxiv.org/…

The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
The ``Neptunian ridge'' is a recently identified peak in the frequency of planets with sizes between that of Neptune and Saturn orbiting their host stars with periods between 3 and 6 days (A. Castro-González et al. 2024). These planets may have formed similarly to their larger, hot Jupiter counterparts in the ``three-day pile-up'', through a dynamically excited migration pathway. The distribution of stellar obliquities in hot Neptune systems may therefore provide a vital clue as to their origi…

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

Bengals OC Dan Pitcher labels Chase Brown a top 10 NFL running back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-oc-dan-pitcher-labels-chase-brown-a-top-10-nfl-runn…

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Commanders vs. Bears prediction, where to watch: Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams set to light it up on 'MNF'

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

Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19442dba-c724-4825-9388-26219a12cb8a

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-08/co…

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/oura-ri…

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company with Latest Raise
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr