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Quarto Manuscript makes me almost want to write scientific articles again. This could potentially change the process quite a lot. But maybe there is also a good use for it in internal project reports. https://quarto.org/docs/manuscripts/

Quarto Manuscripts – Quarto

job notice: $22/hr
which works out to $45,760 a year if 40 hrs a week, 52 weeks a year.
Application asks: how many years of management experience do you have?
Employer is not serious.
"…average salary for a manager is $75,801 per year in the United States." https://www.indeed.com/career/manager/…

Short monochromatic odd cycles
Oliver Janzer, Fredy Yip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14910 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14910

Short monochromatic odd cycles
It is easy to see that every $k$-edge-colouring of the complete graph on $2^k+1$ vertices contains a monochromatic odd cycle. In 1973, Erdős and Graham asked to estimate the smallest $L(k)$ such that every $k$-edge-colouring of $K_{2^k+1}$ contains a monochromatic odd cycle of length at most $L(k)$. Recently, Girão and Hunter obtained the first nontrivial upper bound by showing that $L(k)=O(\frac{2^k}{k^{1-o(1)}})$, which improves the trivial bound by a polynomial factor. We obtain an exponen…

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Mancari, Becca:
🎵 First time
#NowPlaying #Mancari #Becca
https://beccamancari.bandcamp.com/track/first-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/03R9GOTrB56l1znR4j5jhR

Manage Self, Lead Others: Emotional Intelligence And Leadership For Managers
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/manage-self-lead-others-nina-sunday-presents/

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

Comparison of ConvNeXt and Vision-Language Models for Breast Density Assessment in Screening Mammography
Yusdivia Molina-Rom\'an, David G\'omez-Ortiz, Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz, Jos\'e Gerardo Tamez-Pe\~na, Alejandro Santos-D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13964

Comparison of ConvNeXt and Vision-Language Models for Breast Density Assessment in Screening Mammography
Mammographic breast density classification is essential for cancer risk assessment but remains challenging due to subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability. This study compares multimodal and CNN-based methods for automated classification using the BI-RADS system, evaluating BioMedCLIP and ConvNeXt across three learning scenarios: zero-shot classification, linear probing with textual descriptions, and fine-tuning with numerical labels. Results show that zero-shot classification a…

"Bei Israels Angriff auf den Iran agiert der Westen mit Doppelmoral. Damit trägt er mehr zu Erosion des Völkerrechts bei als der offene Regelbruch mancher Autokraten. " #taz
Dazu ist nichs weiter zu sagen. Was es wiegt, das hat es.
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Israels Angriff auf den Iran: Völkerrechtliche Zeitenwende
Bei Israels Angriff auf den Iran agiert der Westen mit Doppelmoral. Damit trägt er mehr zu Erosion des Völkerrechts bei als der offene Regelbruch mancher Autokraten.

Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.

The Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)
Leaders who surrender their point of view inevitably arrive at the same conclusion: we must solve every problem for every user. This approach demolishes the possibility of real impact.

recap from my weekend distro hopping (that was severely limited by the good weather):
- tried Hyprland: cool but I still don't care about tiling window managers; terminals have tabs, emacs is its own window manager, the rest can be full screen or half screen.
- cool to learn about "new" things like Universal Kernel Image, a bit about UEFI, etc.
- I don't like the LEGO approach to build a Desktop; I care about this as much as 10 years ago: 0