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Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Buyout Firm Vista to Acquire EQT’s Acumatica in $2 Billion Deal
Vista Equity Partners agreed to acquire Acumatica Inc., a software company that helps businesses streamline workflows.

@… I very much agree with many of your points, and I’m glad that I no longer work in CL—which had already become NLP a long time ago, and is now by many considered “a subfield of ML.”
I think the problem started when computational linguistics and linguistics split into separate disciplines: one less and less interested in language, the other less…

@… I very much agree with many of your points, and I’m glad that I no longer work in CL—which had already become NLP a long time ago, and is now by many considered “a subfield of ML.”
I think the problem started when computational linguistics and linguistics split into separate disciplines: one less and less interested in language, the other less…

An #Agora is for the benefit of sentient beings

Jerry Falwell and #MeToo agree that men who want sex are evil.
When Christian Fundamentalist Conservatives and Radical Feminists agree, people who still have some common sense need to stick together and fight for sanity.

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The Democrats Are Now The Moral Majority - in the worst possible way One of the most fascinating things in the last few decades of U.S. politics is the total reversal of the sex-positive vs sex-negative positions of the two main parties. In the 80s and 90s the Republicans were the party of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. The sex-phobic Puritan idiots were all in the GOP. The sex-positive enjoy life and don't suppress healthy natural desires party was the Democrats. In the 90s the …

Rudolf Rocker argued that true social liberation requires the abolition of all forms of political, economic, and social oppression, he maintained that even complete economic equality is meaningless without freedom, and that any system enforcing authority or coercion undermines genuine emancipation.
When I think about it, I strongly agree with this view, because real freedom can only exist where no one is subject to outside control, where each person has the space to shape their own lif…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

The Agora Assistant got this one "wrong" about #2025 but I'm here for it

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…