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Rotterdam port prepares for NATO arms shipments amid Russia threat: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/rotterdam-port-prepares-for-nato.html

Melbourne Property Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

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Taichi: high-performance parallel programming in Python.
https://www.taichi-lang.org/
saved 2025-02-15 https://dot…

Russia is preparing for war with NATO – the clock is ticking: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/russia-is-preparing-for-war.html

The fastverse is a suite of complementary high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. #rstats

GitHub - fastverse/fastverse: An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R
An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R - fastverse/fastverse

A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rynbz_v2 by @… et al.;

The UK’s official preparedness website for emergencies, natural disasters, and other disruptive events #commprep

Prepare - Prepare
Find out how to prepare for an emergency in your area. There are simple and effective steps you can take to be more prepared.

Property Elicitation on Imprecise Probabilities
James Bailie, Rabanus Derr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05857 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Property Elicitation on Imprecise Probabilities
Property elicitation studies which attributes of a probability distribution can be determined by minimising a risk. We investigate a generalisation of property elicitation to imprecise probabilities (IP). This investigation is motivated by multi-distribution learning, which takes the classical machine learning paradigm of minimising a single risk over a (precise) probability and replaces it with $Γ$-maximin risk minimization over an IP. We provide necessary conditions for elicitability of a IP…

Arago, which is developing a photonic chip, codenamed JEF, that is designed to cut AI energy use by ten times at a comparable cost, raised a $26M seed (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/08/arago-raises-2…

Arago raises $26M to slash AI energy consumption with breakthrough photonic chip
Arago, a deeptech startup pioneering a new class of energy-efficient AI chips powered by light, has raised $26 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its photonic processor, codenamed “JEF”. At the core of “JEF” is a proprietary photonic technology that processes data using lasers instead of transistors. By using photons, light particles that generate much less heat than electrons, this chip can deliver the same performance as top GPUs while consuming 10× less …