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Ukraine’s grid failure triggers widespread outages and a blackout in Moldova: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraines-grid-failure-triggers-widespread.html

"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

At least 22 dead after record rainfall triggers floods and landslides in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Up to 191 mm within a day, of which 100 mm in 3 hours!
https://watchers.news/2026/02/24/at-least-22-dead-after-rec…

At least 22 dead after record rainfall triggers floods and landslides in Minas Gerais, Brazil
At least 22 people have died in the state of Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil, after a severe storm brought heavy rain, triggering floods and landslides between February 23 and 24, 2026.

#DigitalSovereignty:
„The experience of loss of control does not lead to actions that would allow citizens — or the state — to regain agency. Instead, fear of unknown future risks triggers a preemptive externalization of responsibility, citizens upward to the state, and the state outward to the market.
In doing so, these actions reinforce the hegemonic configurations of …

One of the triggers for the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 was a new poll tax, levied on all adults; and particularly, the fact that the test for adulthood was having pubic hair. This led to the contractors collecting the tax systematically looking up young women's skirts.
It strikes me that one really powerful way to oppose anti #Trans legislation is to ask 'do you want the p…

The Guardian: A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this, by Simon Tisdal.
If you want an extract from that article:
"Despite all the hate-mongering, mutual ignorance and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans and Iranians are on the same side. Their common foe is tyranny. Their leaders are the problem. There is no need for this fight."

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/28/donald-trump-bombs-iran-war-middle-east
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p47#a260228p47

Cheap shot on Cowboys' Ryan Flournoy triggers suspension for Chargers LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cheap-shot-dallas--cowboys-ryan-flournoy-triggers-suspension-chargers-linebacker

The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything from smartphones and cars to household appliances.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

Datacentre growth triggers global memory chip crunch
The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything ...

Solar power surplus in Spain triggers ‘discount season’ for plants
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0572e3-51f1-4d00-a7c5-b99737e1184f

Is it possible to disable the long press action on the iPhone’s right side button in iOS26, the one that triggers AI or something like that?

There's a reason why most of the people who talk about AI the most are Combat Posters:
Anyone who does not thrive on conflict simply stops bothering to post at some point
-- SE Gyges
https://bsky.app/profile/jmiers230.bsky.social/post/3majnqn2ujk2r

Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social)
There's a massive anti-AI bot network that triggers any time there's a post with slight positive sentiment towards AI. If one of those bots attaches to your post, you're hosed. It sucks and it makes any sort of normal, substantive AI discourse nearly impossible to exist here. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

‘Situation is dire’ for Sicily town of Niscemi teetering on cliff edge after landslide. Cyclone Harry brought over 300 mm of rain in 48 hours in some places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/niscemi-sici…

Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks (in mice) https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01305-4

🪤 Cutting key amino acids from mouse diets triggers weight loss through heat burning
#diet

Cutting key amino acids from mouse diets triggers weight loss through heat burning
It's not pleasant to shiver from the cold, but for some, it has the appeal of making the body burn more energy as heat than when staying in a warmer environment. According to several studies, exposure to cold is a reliable way to boost energy expenditure in mice and humans. This process of burning energy through heat loss is called thermogenesis.

From a small business perspective it is amazing to me how sick the US government has become - not just under El Cheato, but in general.
We have to update our SAM registration. SAM is a system used by the Federal GSA to know something about vendors selling things to the Feds. That's a good idea.
But the implementation is a nightmare for a small business.
Even something as simple as an address change triggers long forms, and more forms from other agencies, and a hell of…

1/2 Earlier this year I wrote about a tune arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams known as 'Monks Gate' named after a hamlet near Horsham where Williams heard it on 22 December 1904. https://edintone.com/monks-gate/

Monk’s Gate - Miscellanea Edintone
Every time I pass through, usually on my bike, it triggers an ‘earworm’.A recurring musical melody or song. A memorable piece of music continuously occupies a

What do you call it when you order a pizza that's completely naked on one side, beef on the other, and it triggers a divide-by-zero in the ordering website?
NaN pizza with left beef.

"Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade
The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science agency announced Tuesday, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening landscapes and disruptions to global weather.

Kitty was the perfect distraction while I unloaded the vault :neocat_thief:

"This instinct—to ignore existing borders, laws, and treaties; to treat other countries as artificial; to break up trade links and destroy friendships, all because the Leader wants to look powerful—is one that Trump shares with imperialists of the past."

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

We get so easily fooled because the typical answer is often in fact the correct one. That’s a heuristic we use in our interactions with other humans — “That’s what people say!” — and an LLM using human social forms triggers that psychological process. That’s how this magic trick works.
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That was... jarring. #TOTP
And triggers an unnecessary cover klaxon.

Let's see what post triggers more reactions, #3Dprinted content or this years self made #Christmas #cookies (Kruidnoten 🇳🇱 and Vanillekipferl 🇦🇹). ;) :P

I got a new (used) laptop a few months ago. As is now standard, they've removed the physical mouse buttons and made the touchpad wider. "No problem," I thought, "I've been practicing with tap-to-click!"
After a little while the phantom clicks started driving me nuts. Part of it is due to the wideness, part of it due to sensitivity (moving my finger onto the pad sometimes triggers a click). So tap-to-click is now disabled.. [1/2]

I just finished¹ building a QRP Labs QMX this weekend, and after a few tests, tonight I got on the air with it and made my first QSO with it. All the way to the Kansas City, MO area, with AK0A Ken. Using a radio about the size of a deck of playing cards. The radio is smaller than the USB power bank I was using for power. 🤯
¹It triggers SWR protection transmitting into a dummy load, so I guess "finished" is modulo taking it apart and rewinding the transformer that senses SWR. But also I…

Have tidied up kwin_wayland patch to change the hardcoded gestures to sensible defaults, and I am working my way through implementing a file-based configuration interface for all possible inbuilt gestures that kwin_wayland can send. I'm not sure if this is all going to work thanks to Wayland's certifiably insane paranoid security model, but at least I should be able to let you decide how many fingers to swipe with what direction of swipe triggers a built-in gesture in the wm.

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russia-launches-mass-attack-on.html