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Von wegen anonymes Bargeld... 💸 Was früher als diskrete Zahlungsmethode galt, wird zunehmend zum offenen Buch für Behörden und Unternehmen. Durch automatisierte Erfassung von Seriennummern auf Geldscheinen entsteht eine Form der Überwachung.
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Saving Electricity and Gas (2021) - Meter readings at home. #4kWhDHWClub - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2021.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2021)
Meter readings at home. #4kWhDHWClub

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 12-08-2025 09:00
Temperatur: (min: 11,9C) 19,7C (max: 19,9C)
Feuchte: 76%
Luftdruck: 1020,9 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: 211 Grad
Wi…

Bringing Everyone to the Table: An Experimental Study of LLM-Facilitated Group Decision Making
Mohammed Alsobay, David M. Rothschild, Jake M. Hofman, Daniel G. Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08242

Bringing Everyone to the Table: An Experimental Study of LLM-Facilitated Group Decision Making
Group decision-making often suffers from uneven information sharing, hindering decision quality. While large language models (LLMs) have been widely studied as aids for individuals, their potential to support groups of users, potentially as facilitators, is relatively underexplored. We present a pre-registered randomized experiment with 1,475 participants assigned to 281 five-person groups completing a hidden profile task--selecting an optimal city for a hypothetical sporting event--under one o…

Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…

Opinion | Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.

Small effort at #bloomscrolling today. It's on an industrial estate which is otherwise pretty sterile. I noticed so many areas that could have been profusely planted.

Rough numbers between consecutive primes
Ayla Gafni, Terence Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06463 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06463

Rough numbers between consecutive primes
Using a sieve-theoretic argument, we show that almost all gaps $(p_n, p_{n+1})$ between consecutive primes $p_n, p_{n+1}$ contain a natural number $m$ whose least prime factor $p(m)$ is at least the length $p_{n+1} - p_n$ of the gap, confirming a prediction of Erdős. In fact the number $N(X)$ of exceptional gaps with $p_n \in [X,2X]$ is shown to be at most $O(X/\log^2 X)$. Assuming a form of the Hardy--Littlewood prime tuples conjecture, we establish a more precise asymptotic $N(X) \sim c X / …

Zero-Shot Retrieval for Scalable Visual Search in a Two-Sided Marketplace
Andre Rusli, Shoma Ishimoto, Sho Akiyama, Aman Kumar Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05661 https://

Zero-Shot Retrieval for Scalable Visual Search in a Two-Sided Marketplace
Visual search offers an intuitive way for customers to explore diverse product catalogs, particularly in consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplaces where listings are often unstructured and visually driven. This paper presents a scalable visual search system deployed in Mercari's C2C marketplace, where end-users act as buyers and sellers. We evaluate recent vision-language models for zero-shot image retrieval and compare their performance with an existing fine-tuned baseline. The system integrates…

Die ePetition 180226 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Anerkennung von Zeiten der Kindererziehung in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung mit dem Titel
Verbesserung der Anerkennung der Kindererziehungszeiten für Geburten vor 1992
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Der Deutsche Bundestag möge beschließen, die Mütterente der älteren Mütter zu verbessern, d.h. an die jetzige Generation anzugleichen.
und wird begründet
Die Si…

Die ePetition 177754 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Verbraucherschutz mit dem Titel
Bereitstellung einer Auswahlmöglichkeit zum Abschalten der Ansagen bei Hotlines mit Auswahlmenüs und Warteschleifen
kann bis zum Mittwoch 16. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert dass Unternehmen, die bei telefonischer Kontaktaufnahme Auswahlmenüs und Warteschleifen für Anrufer nutzen, eine Auswahlmöglichkeit zum Abschalten der Ansagen integri…