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Before the famous counter, people, often immigrants, had to count Geigers by hand.

Sam: What's new, Norm?
Norm: Most of my wife.
-- Cheers, The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One
Coach: Beer, Norm?
Norm: Naah, I'd probably just drink it.
-- Cheers, Now Pitching, Sam Malone
Coach: What's doing, Norm?
Norm: Well, science is seeking a cure for thirst. I happen
to be the guinea pig.
-- Cheers, Let Me Count the Ways

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Rossini's The Barber of Seville
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, starring Aigul Akhmetshina as Rosina, Jack Swanson as her admirer Count Almaviva, and Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Figaro, the barber himself.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cr7k

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03394 has been replaced.
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Partitioning 2-edge-coloured bipartite graphs into monochromatic cycles
Given an $r$-edge-colouring of the edges of a graph $G$, we say that it can be partitioned into $p$ monochromatic cycles when there exists a set of $p$ vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles covering all the vertices of $G$. In the literature of this problem, an edge and a single vertex both count as a cycle. We show that for every $2$-colouring of the edges of a complete balanced bipartite graph, $K_{n,n}$, it can be partitioned into at most 4 monochromatic cycles. This type of question was fi…

A Comparison of Bacterial Colonies Count from Petri Dishes Utilizing Hough Transform and Traditional Manual Counting
Areesha Rehman, Zikria Saleem, Jarrar Amjad, Syed Rehan Shah, Kamran Siddique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20365

A Comparison of Bacterial Colonies Count from Petri Dishes Utilizing Hough Transform and Traditional Manual Counting
Bacterial colony enumeration is an essential stage in microbiological research, allowing susceptibility to antibiotics assessment, monitoring of the environment, and clinical diagnostics. Traditional manual counting methods are costly and susceptible to human mistakes, prompting the creation of automated detection systems. This research compares the efficacy of the Hough Circle Transform method for automated colony detection to hand counting of E. coli, S. aureus, and P. aeruginosa colonies on …

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
Radu Curticapean, Simon D\"oring, Daniel Neuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22300 h…

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
We consider the parameterized problem $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ for fixed graph properties $Φ$: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, this problem asks to count the number of induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $Φ$. Dörfler et al. [Algorithmica 2022] and Roth et al. [SICOMP 2024] conjectured that $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ is $\#$W[1]-hard for all non-meager properties $Φ$, i.e., properties that are nontrivial for infinitely many $k$. This conjecture has been confirmed for several restricted types of prop…

Раптово зрозумів, що Mercedes — жіноче ім'я.
Отже, і марка автомобіля є жінкою.
by Assassin-or-Shadow(https://www.deviantart.com/assassin-or-shadow/art/Pastel-Shycedes-750152788)

Pastel Shycedes by Assassin-or-Shadow on DeviantArt

On vertices and inflections of singular plane curves
James William Bruce, Marco Ant\^onio do Couto Fernandes, Farid Tari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21601 h…

On vertices and inflections of singular plane curves
Given the germ of a smooth plane curve $(\{f(x,y)=0\},0)\subset (\mathbb{K}^2,0), \mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{C}$, with an isolated singularity, we define two invariants $I_f$ and $V_f \in \mathbb{N} \cup\{\infty\}$, which count the number of inflections and vertices (suitably interpreted in the complex case) concentrated at the singular point. The first is an affine invariant, while the second is invariant under similarities of $\mathbb{R}^2$, and their analogue for $\mathbb{C}^2$. When the…

Count the bears. An important test of your outdoor survival skills, human.
#wildlife #Bristol #Zoo

Australia Tax Whistleblower Pleads Guilty To Four Charges https://thedissenter.org/australia-tax-whistleblower-pleads-guilty-to-four-charges/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02769 has been replaced.
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Curbing the Ramifications of Authorship Abuse in Science
Research performance is often measured using bibliometric indicators, such as publication count, total citations, and $h$-index. These metrics influence career advancements, salary adjustments, administrative opportunities, funding prospects, and professional recognition. However, the reliance on these metrics has also made them targets for manipulation, misuse, and abuse. One primary ethical concern is authorship abuse, which includes paid, ornamental, exploitative, cartel, and colonial author…

𝑪𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝑫𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒓𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔.
#Alberta #politics
“… if we count the eight parliamentary secretaries the percentage of UCP caucus members in cabinet is actually 76 per cent.”
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=b0558fad2d&u=6f3c7ed70f931876787963307&id=7706af86f3

"There will be a lot of fighting, though"
"Oh yeah, that's true"
"Yeah it's true"
"There will be a lot of fighting"
"Exactly"
"Count me in then"
Expedition 33 is amazing

This whistleblower account is really bad. This needs a congressional hearing but I wouldn’t count on it before mid-terms.
https://mastodon.social/@mattjay/114356086813609251

I recently discovered fine art photography albums can be larger than my 13-inch laptop and that means at some point of my life I'll have nowhere to put my body to sleep, but I'll still have plenty of stuff to browse through.
Current count: 2.
And don't ask me about space for my books.

PolyTrack: try try again
PolyTrack is a Trackmania tribute - almost identical gameplay mechanics, but with digital controls, simplified driving model, and a very stripped-back graphical style. It's even simpler than Virtua Racing in many ways, with the car having a polygon count almost in the single digits. This simplicity means that it runs incredibly smoothly, even in-browser at Much like Trackmania, the courses are short but deceptively tricky to complete.

This was a real post on LinkedIn. It was deleted, either by LinkedIn or by the page owner. Long live Sesame Street!

Crumpets, bacon, egg, tea and coffee. I suppose this could count as the first “May breakfast” (a Rhode Island tradition) here if you consider our house an organization!
Poetry slam tonight. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/LhMRrgS3JnQcBCQK6