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wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 41424 nodes and 73900 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph,…

I saw a note about how under the new Federal Sales Tax (tariff) regime that it may be better for VW to shut down its US manufacturing and instead import cars from Germany.
That seemed weird until I thought about what VW's US expenses are and how they would be afflicted by the tariff/sales tax.
Much of the cost of a vehicle comes from research and the manufacturing tools (such as robots). The research is already in Germany. And the robots are probably made in Germany or other…

Boosting Ensembles for Statistics of Tails at Conditionally Optimal Advance Split Times
Justin Finkel, Paul A. O'Gorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22310 https://

Boosting Ensembles for Statistics of Tails at Conditionally Optimal Advance Split Times
Climate science needs more efficient ways to study high-impact, low-probability extreme events, which are rare by definition and costly to simulate in large numbers. Rare event sampling (RES) and ensemble boosting offer a novel strategy to extract more information from those occasional simulated events: small perturbations in advance can turn a moderate event into a severe one, which otherwise might not come for many more simulation-years. But how to choose this ``advance split time'' (AST) rem…

"Kryptokalypse": EU verlangt quantensichere Verschlüsselung – teils bis 2030
Alle Mitgliedstaaten sollen bis 2026 mit der Umstellung auf Post-Quanten-Kryptografie beginnen, fordern EU-Gremien. Bei kritischen Infrastrukturen sei es eilig.

[german talk recommendation, sorry non-german speakers]
https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-86-impulswahl-zu-dtmf-konverter-in-relaistechnik
ist ein wirklich toller Talk zu einem Impulswahl->DTMF-Umsetzer in reiner Relaistechnik. Klare Emp…

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Ukraine war latest: Third round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks set for July 23, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/ukraine-war-latest-third-round.html

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 155820 nodes and 1358426 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…

Germany says EU discussing 'more than 3' Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/germany-says-eu-discussing-more.html