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Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

»Gott sei Dank definiert sich Intelligenz nicht durch Siege beim Go. Sie definiert sich auch durch die Fähigkeit, ein Sandwich zu machen.«
Aus: FibreTigre u. a. – Künstliche Intelligenz (2019/2024). Ja, das ist eine Graphic Novel aka Comic. #bücherliebe

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…

Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/29/paragraphs.html

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
Soh Kumabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16815

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
We consider \textsc{Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion}, which is a hybrid of two fundamental parameterized problems: \textsc{Cluster Vertex Deletion} and \textsc{Feedback Vertex Set}. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and asked to find a vertex subset $X$ of size at most $k$ such that each connected component of $G-X$ is either a clique or a tree. Jacob et al. (ISAAC, 2024) provided a kernel of $O(k^5)$ vertices for this problem, which was recently improve…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Moses Sumney:
🎵 Vintage (6 Music Session, 22 Oct 2024)
#MosesSumney
https://mosessumney.bandcamp.com/track/vintage
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EQt3hJTjy2dYuxZp3cqo9

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Ik begin vandaag met het percentage positief, omdat dat opnieuw fors gestegen is en inmiddels vrijwel even hoog is als de top van de herfstgolf in 2024.
Vorige week 1,27%, nu 1,53%.
#qp2t

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…

If you're using #ForgeJo and are experiencing the error
`fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly` when doing "git push", the problem is the client buffer size for HTTP pushes. In my case I have just fixed it by doing the following:
`$ git config http.postBuffer 157286400`
I've found the solution here:

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
Judhajeet Basu, G. C. Anupama, Jan-Uwe Ness, Kulinder Pal Singh, Sudhanshu Barway, Shatakshi Chamoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11231

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
We report on UV and X-ray observations of the 2024 eruption of the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a, a rapidly recurring extragalactic system with a $\sim$4.3 year recurrence period and a massive white dwarf (WD). The eruption was discovered on 2024 August 1.8 by \textit{Swift}, and subsequently monitored using \textit{AstroSat}'s UVIT and SXT, along with Swift/UVOT and XRT. The multi-wavelength light curves reveal a rapid UV-optical decline, followed by a plateau phase exhibiting 1.26-day modulati…

Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million From Consulting in 2024, Returns Show (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/nyregion/cuomo-tax-return-millionaire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.Uw6X.vBiQktKDu5-b&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p91#a251029p91

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…

Sheffield ! Looking forward to playing on the 12.4 channel iklectik soundsystem at no bounds festival together with @… bundy from 2:30pm this Saturday
https://noboundsfestival.co.uk/lineup

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 28.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/bangladesh-to-reintroduce-captive-elephants-to-the-wild/

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh has embarked on an ambitious plan to end the centuries-old practice of keeping elephants in captivity. The government has begun retrieving privately owned elephants and aims to rehabilitate them in the wild. The initiative follows a 2024 […]

Aidan Hutchinson, Lions agree to 4-year extension, his agent says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565234/2025/10/29/aidan-hutchinson-contract-extension-lions/

Donald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/champagne-chauffeur-prive-jordan-bardella-…

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
La justice a confirmé que le contribuable n’avait pas à rembourser une partie des dépenses de la tête de liste du Rassemblement national lors du scrutin de 2024. Plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros de coûts « excessifs » ou « sans finalité électorale ».

Fine-structure constant sensitivity of the Th-229 nuclear clock transition: #FineStructureConstant? https://www.tuwien.at/en/phy/ati/news/wie-konstant-ist-die-feinstrukturkonstante - in 2024, TU Wien presented the world's first nuclear clock; now it has been demonstrated that the technology can also be used to investigate unresolved questions in fundamental physics.

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/thre

Threads reaches 150 million daily users and is ramping up ads
Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users and is ramping up ads on the text-based platform.

USpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.

såg ofta butterfly på lekplatserna när jag var föräldraledig, lite för ofta skulle jag säga, extremt ofta, deras ekonomiska strategi verkar vara att använda kommunens offentliga lekplatser som avlastningsyta för att slippa betala för egna lokaler, vilket tär på våra gemensamma resurser, glad att de inte får nytt tillstånd www.mitti.se/nyheter/nej-till-privat-forskola-i-ragsved-6.3.325639.9606f7a3e2
EDIT: Se bild, det funkar!

CNN's Daniel Dale fact checks Trump & calls outright B.S. on his blatant lies about inflation being 'defeated'.
Groceries costs are sky high due to Trump's immigration crackdown & wild tariffs, with all-up consumer prices are up 3.0% since Sept 2024.
#trump #Inflation

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
Congyao Zhang, Irina Zhuravleva, Annie Heinrich, Elena Bellomi, Nhut Truong, John ZuHone, Eugene Churazov, Megan E. Eckart, Yutaka Fujita, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Yuto Ichinohe, Maxim Markevitch, Kyoko Matsushita, Fran\c{c}ois Mernier, Eric D. Miller, Koji Mori, Hiroshi Nakajima, Anna Ogorzalek, Frederick S. Porter, Ay\c{s}eg\"ul T\"umer, Shutaro Ueda, Norbert Werner

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
In this paper, we present extended gas kinematic maps of the Perseus cluster by combining five new XRISM/Resolve pointings observed in 2025 with four Performance Verification datasets from 2024, totaling 745 ks net exposure. To date, Perseus remains the only cluster that has been extensively mapped out to ~0.7$r_{2500}$ by XRISM/Resolve, while simultaneously offering sufficient spatial resolution to resolve gaseous substructures driven by mergers and AGN feedback. Our observations cover multipl…

New GPU developments in the Madgraph CUDACPP plugin: kernel splitting, helicity streams, cuBLAS color sums
Andrea Valassi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05392 https://

New GPU developments in the Madgraph CUDACPP plugin: kernel splitting, helicity streams, cuBLAS color sums
The first production release of the CUDACPP plugin for the Madgraph5_aMC@NLO generator, which speeds up matrix element (ME) calculations for leading-order (LO) QCD processes using a data parallel approach on vector CPUs and GPUs, was delivered in October 2024. This has been described in previous publications by the team behind that effort. In this paper, I describe my work on some additional developments providing further optimizations of CUDACPP for GPUs, which I consider ready for inclusion i…

Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara, Salvador Lima-L\'opez, Eul\`alia Farr\'e-Maduell, Martin Krallinger, Natalia Loukachevitch, Vera Davydova, Elena Tutubalina, Georgios Paliouras
https://

Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
This is an overview of the twelfth edition of the BioASQ challenge in the context of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2024. BioASQ is a series of international challenges promoting advances in large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering. This year, BioASQ consisted of new editions of the two established tasks b and Synergy, and two new tasks: a) MultiCardioNER on the adaptation of clinical entity detection to the cardiology domain in a multilingual sett…

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…

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,…

A note on a diffeomorphism criterion via long-time Ricci flow
Shaochuang Huang, Zhuo Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05802 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05802…

A note on a diffeomorphism criterion via long-time Ricci flow
In this note, we give a diffeomorphism (to $\mathbb{R}^n$) criterion via long-time Ricci flow and show some applications. In particular, we provide an affirmative answer that the conclusion in [Manifolds with small curvature concentration, Ann. PDE, 2024] by Chan, Lee and the first named author and [Removing scalar curvature assumption for Ricci flow smoothing, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2025] by A. Martens about manifolds with small curvature concentration can be improved to diffeomorphism in dim…

Larry Ellison (Oracle-Chef und Trump-Freund) träumt von der totalen Überwachung: Bürger „werden sich benehmen“, weil jeder Schritt gefilmt, analysiert, gemeldet wird. Klingt mehr nach Orwells #1984 als nach Fortschritt. Mehr Kameras bedeuten nicht mehr Gerechtigkeit, sondern mehr Machtkonzentration. Autor Christiaan Hetzner zieht Parallelen zu Chinas Sozialkreditsystem. | Fortune

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808472/grammarly-superhuman-ai-rebrand-rel…

Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman
Grammarly is rebranding to become Superhuman, an AI agent-powered work platform that combines its writing tool with Coda and Superhuman Mail.

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
Zeshi Dai, Zimo Peng, Zerui Cheng, Ryan Yihe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00332

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
We present CAIA, a benchmark exposing a critical blind spot in AI evaluation: the inability of state-of-the-art models to operate in adversarial, high-stakes environments where misinformation is weaponized and errors are irreversible. While existing benchmarks measure task completion in controlled settings, real-world deployment demands resilience against active deception. Using crypto markets as a testbed where $30 billion was lost to exploits in 2024, we evaluate 17 models on 178 time-anchore…

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at

Monitoring of 3C 286 with ALMA, IRAM, and SMA from 2006 to 2025: Stability, Synchrotron Ages, and Frequency-Dependent Polarization Attributed to Core-Shift
Minchul Kam, Hiroshi Nagai, Motoki Kino, Keiichi Asada, R\"udiger Kneissl, Iv\'an Agudo, Sascha Trippe, Seiji Kameno, Ioannis Myserlis, Ramprasada Rao, Hojin Cho, Richard A. Perley, Bryan J. Butler, Mark Gurwell, Tomoki Matsuoka, Jongho Park, Carolina Casadio, Baltasar Vila Vilaro, Celia Verdugo, Matias Radiszcz, Kurt Plarr…

Monitoring of 3C 286 with ALMA, IRAM, and SMA from 2006 to 2025: Stability, Synchrotron Ages, and Frequency-Dependent Polarization Attributed to Core-Shift
We present the results of multi-frequency monitoring of the radio quasar 3C 286, conducted using three instruments: ALMA at 91.5, 103.5, 233.0, and 343.4 GHz, the IRAM 30-m Telescope at 86 and 229 GHz, and SMA at 225 GHz. The IRAM measurements from 2006 to 2024 show that the total flux of 3C 286 is stable within measurement uncertainties, indicating long-term stability up to 229 GHz, when applying a fixed Kelvin-to-Jansky conversion factor throughout its dataset. ALMA data from 2018 to 2024 exh…

»Eine KI denkt nicht, sie produziert keinen Sinn, außer durch Zufall. Der Sinn existiert nur für uns. Er entsteht, wenn ein Beobachter da ist, der ihn wahrnimmt. Deshalb warnen wir vor Vermenschlichung.«
Aus: FibreTigre et al. - Künstliche Intelligenz (2019/2024) #ai #ki

Human Autonomy and Sense of Agency in Human-Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review
Felix Glawe, Tim Schmeckel, Philipp Brauner, Martina Ziefle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22271

Human Autonomy and Sense of Agency in Human-Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review
Human autonomy and sense of agency are increasingly recognised as critical for user well-being, motivation, and the ethical deployment of robots in human-robot interaction (HRI). Given the rapid development of artificial intelligence, robot capabilities and their potential to function as colleagues and companions are growing. This systematic literature review synthesises 22 empirical studies selected from an initial pool of 728 articles published between 2011 and 2024. Articles were retrieved f…

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
Kshitij Duraphe, Kartik Mandar, Chooda Khanal, Abha Pareek, Tejaswi Kondhiya, V Sree Suswara, Deeksha Dinesh, Vidyasagar Bhat, Gopal Bhatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10746

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
We present a comprehensive timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 using 26 NuSTAR observations spanning 2012-2024, providing the most detailed characterization to date of its accretion flow variability across spectral states. Our analysis reveals fundamental insights into the physics governing state transitions in stellar-mass black holes. We discover distinct bimodal flux distributions in the 8-79 keV band with well-separated peaks, contrasting with overlapping distributions…

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
Thomas Boudier, Filippo Casagrande, Avinandan Das, Massimo Equi, Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese, Ronja Stimpert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22233

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
The online-LOCAL and SLOCAL models are extensions of the LOCAL model where nodes are processed in a sequential but potentially adversarial order. So far, the only problem we know of where the global memory of the online-LOCAL model has an advantage over SLOCAL is 3-coloring bipartite graphs. Recently, Chang et al. [PODC 2024] showed that even in grids, 3-coloring requires $Ω(\log n)$ locality in deterministic online-LOCAL. This result was subsequently extended by Akbari et al. [STOC 2025] to a…

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

Trump has forgotten why he won in 2024 (Andrew Prokop/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/466332/trump-economy-polling-bad-worst-inflation-prices
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p143#a251028p143

Further testing the validity of generalized heterogeneous-elasticity theory for low-frequency excitations in structural glasses
Walter Schirmacher, Matteo Paoluzzi, Felix Cosmin Mocanu, Dmytro Khomenko, Grzegorz Szamel, Francesco Zamponi, Giancarlo Ruocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04988

Further testing the validity of generalized heterogeneous-elasticity theory for low-frequency excitations in structural glasses
In a recent paper E. Lerner and E. Bouchbinder, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 111}, L013402 (2025) raised concerns regarding the validity of the theory and the interpretation of the data, presented in our previous study on non-phononic vibrational excitations in glasses, W. Schirmacher {\it et al.}, Nature Comm. {\bf 15}, 3107 (2024). In that work, we presented evidence suggesting that the commonly observed low-frequency regime of the non-phononic vibrational density of states (DoS) is, in fact, high…

Sharp Interface Dynamics in a Minimal Non-Reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard System
Daniel Gomez, Yoichiro Mori, Sarah Strikwerda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21706 https://

Sharp Interface Dynamics in a Minimal Non-Reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard System
Interest in non-reciprocally coupled systems recently led to the introduction of a minimal non-reciprocally coupled Cahn-Hilliard (CH) model by Brauns and Marchetti in 2024 arXiv:2306.08868, which we refer to as the Brauns-Marchetti (BM) model. This model can be seen as a conservative counterpart to the spatially extended FitzHugh-Nagumo model. Lacking a gradient structure, the BM model was observed to exhibit interesting dynamics including traveling periodic wave-trains and other coherent stru…

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09596 h…

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Dimensions, and OpenAlex) from 2015 to 2024. Using over 2.4 million PMC open-access publications (2021-July 2025), we also analysed full texts to assess changes in the frequency and co-occurrence of these terms before and after ChatGPT's initial public release. Acro…

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
Alina Ene, Ta Duy Nguyen, Adrian Vladu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01729 https://arx…

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
We introduce fast algorithms for solving $\ell_{p}$ regression problems using the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art iteration complexity, outperforming the IRLS algorithm by Adil-Peng-Sachdeva (NeurIPS 2019) and matching the theoretical bounds established by the complex algorithm of Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva (SODA 2019, J. ACM 2024) via a simpler lightweight iterative scheme. This bridges the existing gap between theoretical and practical a…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Probing spectral variability in NGC 4490 ULX-8 over 24 years of XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift-XRT observations
Tarang Vashisht, Aru Beri, Tanuman Ghosh, Aman Upadhyay, Vikram Rana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11415

Probing spectral variability in NGC 4490 ULX-8 over 24 years of XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift-XRT observations
We present comprehensive spectral and timing results of 14 Chandra, 6 XMM-Newton and 19 Swift-XRT observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4490 ULX-8, spanning from 2000 to 2024. We model the source spectra using absorbed power-law and absorbed multicolour disc blackbody models. The best-fit photon indices span 0.92-2.68, with typical uncertainties ranging from $\pm$0.1 to $\pm$1 depending on data quality. The inner disk temperature range from 0.97 to 1.69 keV, consistent with blackbo…

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

A Sharper View of the X-ray Spectrum of MCG--6-30-15 with XRISM, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
Laura W. Brenneman, Daniel R. Wilkins, Anna Ogorza{\l}ek, Daniele Rogantini, Andrew C. Fabian, Javier A. Garc\'ia, Anna Jur\'a\v{n}ov\'a, Misaki Mizumoto, Hirofumi Noda, Ehud Behar, Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin, Matteo Guainazzi, Takashi Okajima, Erika Hoffman, Noa Keshet, Jelle Kaastra, Erin Kara, Makoto Yamauchi

A Sharper View of the X-ray Spectrum of MCG--6-30-15 with XRISM, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
We present a time-averaged spectral analysis of the 2024 XRISM observation of the narrow-line Seyfert-1 galaxy MCG--6-30-15, taken contemporaneously with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. Our analysis leverages a unique combination of broadband and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy to definitively isolate and characterize both broad and narrow emission and absorption features in this source. The best-fitting model for the joint spectral analysis is very well described by reflection from the inner accreti…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

»Auch wenn tüchtige Sekretärinnen immer sehr geschätzt wurden, zeigt sich hier ein respektvoller Umgang, der in den späteren Jahren verloren ging. Möglicherweise lag es daran, dass Sekretär zu dieser Zeit ein angesehener Männerberuf war und die ersten Sekretärinnen von diesem Ansehen profitierten. Oftmals verlieren Berufe ihren Status, wenn er zu einem Frauenberuf wird.«
Aus: Annegret Braun – Die Sekretärin (2024)

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Natural Disaster In Canada (2024)
H. Hao
https://arx…

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

Josh Jacobs, Xavier McKinney have bigger goals for Year 2 with Packers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46088393/nfl-green-bay-packers-josh-jacobs-xavier-mckinney

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 13, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - November 13, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 6 fellowships, 3 grants, 4 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 1 other submission.

Streamingplattformen haben kaum Schweizer Filme im Angebot. Diese machen weniger als 3% der Filme und rund 2% der Abrufe aus. Dennoch ist ihr Publikum in absoluten Zahlen stark gewachsen: Zwischen 2023 und 2024 gab es 7-mal mehr Abrufe, und dies obschon das Angebot an Schweizer Filmen auf den Streamingplattformen innerhalb eines Jahres um 2% zurückging. Das gesteigerte Interesse fokussiert sich dabei auf einige wenige Grosserfolge.
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/news/de/2025-0313

We also wrote a "Snapshot of Modern Mathematics", a short article about the so-called "4-sample-theorem" for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models.
We submitted it to MFO in Spring 2024 but sadly they have not yet dealt with it. We never put out a preprint, thinking this would have been a very short process. But it is not.
So here is the preprint now, exclusively posted on the Fediverse:
https://thomas-kahle.de/assets/pdf/mfo-mlt-preprint.pdf
@…: snapshots are in bad shape... 😞
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From X-rays to High-Energy Gamma-rays: A Comprehensive Multi-Wavelength Study of Early Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
P. Tiwari, B. Banerjee, D. Miceli, G. Oganesyan, A. Ierardi, S. Macera, M. Branchesi, L. Nava, S. Mohnani, S. Agarwal, A. Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05239

From X-rays to High-Energy Gamma-rays: A Comprehensive Multi-Wavelength Study of Early Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) generate powerful relativistic jets that inject a large amount of energy into their surrounding environment, producing blast waves that accelerate particles to high energies. The GRB afterglow radiation provides a powerful means to investigate the microphysics of relativistic shocks and to probe the medium surrounding the progenitor of the burst. In this study, we present a comprehensive multiwavelength analysis of 31 GRBs observed between 2008 and 2024 from the Neil Geh…

Good Morning #Canada
This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....
- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.
Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile

Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Stergios Intzes, Georgios D. Papadopoulos, Lykourgos Magafas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20126 https://…

Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Our analysis focuses on the stock cryptocurrency market, by studying a group of nineteen cryptocurrencies where their capitalisation is about 99% of the total market. Specifically, it is examined this group of cryptocurrencies for the period from 2017 up to 2024, taking into account the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. As far as we know, this is the first time that this kind of study has been published, where it takes place by creating various networks based on stock cryptocurrency correlation, in …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 The Ghost In You
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://glennlimbaga.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in-you-glenn-limbaga-2024-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/04BQXS1HwzNpfZ2Wvw2RIy

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20246

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information Combinatorial Selection (CICS) that was recently introduced by Chawla et al. [2024] and Bowers et al. [2025]. In this problem, a decision maker needs to select a feasible subset of stochastic variables, and can only learn information about their values through a series of costly steps, modeled by a Markov decision pr…

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
Sharleen N. Espinoza, Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning, Michela Negro, Roseanne M. Cheng, Nicol\'o Cibrario
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20214

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
We present an analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor classification, through their positions on a Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plot, constructed by Negro et al. 2024, from Fermi-GBM waterfall plots. The embedding plot has a head-tail morphology, in which GRBs with confirmed progenitors (e.g. collapsars vs. binary neutron star mergers) fall in distinct regions. We investigate the positions of various proposed sub-populations of GRBs, including those with and without…