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Environmental extreme risk modeling via sub-sampling block maxima
Tuoyuan Cheng, Xiao Peng, Achmad Choiruddin, Xiaogang He, Kan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14556

Environmental extreme risk modeling via sub-sampling block maxima
This paper introduces a novel sub-sampling block maxima technique to model and characterize environmental extreme risks. We examine the relationships between block size and block maxima statistics derived from the Gaussian and generalized Pareto distributions. We introduce a weighted least square estimator for extreme value index (EVI) and evaluate its performance using simulated auto-correlated data. We employ the second moment of block maxima for plateau finding in EVI and extremal index (EI)…

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Just before the Kennedy Center's opening night performance of the musical "Les Miserables,"
Donald and Melania Trump stood to be recognized.
They were met with a loud chorus of boos.
Video of the moment shows the boos mixed with some cheering,
Some Trump supporters in the audience shouted "USA" chants in an attempt to drown out the booing.
In addition to the First Couple, both JD Vance and Usha Vance were also in attendance

'Embarrassing': Trump 'booed mercilessly' by Kennedy Center at 'Les Miserables' opening
Just before the Kennedy Center's opening night performance of the musical "Les Miserables," President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stood to be recognized. They were met with a loud chorus of boos.Video of the moment shows the boos mixed with some cheering, with Reuters White House corre...

Les États-Unis, pris en otage par Netanyahou, déplacent leurs navires de la mer de Chine vers le Moyen Orient. C'est le moment pour la Chine d'envahir le Taïwan.

Urban Composition II 🫟
都市构图 II 🫟
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Wadephul wirft Putin fehlende Verhandlungsbereitschaft vor
Außenminister Johann Wadephul hat Kremlchef Wladimir Putin im US-Fernsehen vorgeworfen, nicht bereit für ein Ende des Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine zu sein. "Alle sind für Verhandlungen. Alle sind dafür, dass die beiden Parteien eine einvernehmliche Lösung finden. Aber im Moment ist Russland dazu nicht bereit (...)", sagte der CDU-Politiker im Interview mit dem US-…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch Drohnenangriffe ++
Die Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch russische Drohnen in der Region Sumy. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

Imprints of Different Types of Low-Angular-Momentum Accretion Flow Solutions in General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations
Indu K. Dihingia, Akhil Uniyal, Yosuke Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05750

Imprints of Different Types of Low-Angular-Momentum Accretion Flow Solutions in General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations
Depending on the astrophysical source and its environment, the accretion flows can exhibit a variety of behaviors and characteristics in accordance with the type of solutions. We study low-angular-momentum accretion flows onto black holes using two-dimensional general relativistic hydrodynamic (GRHD) simulations to find imprints of different types of accretion solutions. Such flows, relevant to X-ray binaries and wind-fed low-luminosity active galactic nuclei, often lack sufficient angular mome…

Planetesimal Scattering Efficiency of Cold Giant Planet Architectures
Stephen R. Kane, Emma L. Miles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08088 https://

Planetesimal Scattering Efficiency of Cold Giant Planet Architectures
The discovery of many exoplanets has revealed an incredible diversity of orbital architectures. These orbital configurations are intrinsically linked to the potential for habitable environments within the system, since the gravitational influence of the planets governs the angular momentum distribution within the system. This angular momentum distribution, in turn, alters the planetary orbits and rotational obliquities. In the case of giant planets, their gravitational influence can also produc…

"The day will come when all these skirmishes & battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority & then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege."
"Remember this: Try."
▶️ Nemik's Manifesto, #ANDOR