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Climate change amplifies extreme rains more than light precipitation, study finds #environment

Climate change amplifies extreme rains more than light precipitation, study finds
Climate change enhances extreme rains more than the ordinary drizzle. New research shows that frontal rain increases the most, and illustrates why extreme rains caused by other phenomena are not equally affected.

"Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report
Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at risk. A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches and campaigns against online hatred and disinformation, finds that anti-climate figures are increasingly spreading false information about wildfires and hurricanes […]

Die Extraschicht startet am Samstag -
Probiert’s aus und gebt Kette! LOL
Es gibt natürlich Touren für's Rad
https://www.extraschicht.de/per-rad/
wir sind eigen und fahren unsere eigene Tour ;-)

Studie: Insider-Bedrohungen durch KI sind gefährlicher als externe Cyberangriffe
Eine umfassende Befragung von IT-Sicherheitsexperten zeigt: Interne Bedrohungen gelten inzwischen als größte Security-Herausforderung. KI spielt zentrale Rolle.

This Isn't Negotiation. It's Authoritarian Extortion. (Pavan V. Thakkar/The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/26/enos-levitsky-harvard-trump-negotiation-extortion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p77#a250626p77

Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/26/fossil-fuel-extra…

Brian Schottenheimer extremely pleased with new Dallas Cowboys cornerback https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-extremely-pleased-new-dallas-cowboys-cornerback

Evaluating the Representation of Vowels in Wav2Vec Feature Extractor: A Layer-Wise Analysis Using MFCCs
Domenico De Cristofaro, Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Alessandro Vietti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17914

Evaluating the Representation of Vowels in Wav2Vec Feature Extractor: A Layer-Wise Analysis Using MFCCs
Automatic Speech Recognition has advanced with self-supervised learning, enabling feature extraction directly from raw audio. In Wav2Vec, a CNN first transforms audio into feature vectors before the transformer processes them. This study examines CNN-extracted information for monophthong vowels using the TIMIT corpus. We compare MFCCs, MFCCs with formants, and CNN activations by training SVM classifiers for front-back vowel identification, assessing their classification accuracy to evaluate pho…

Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests #environment

Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests
Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible.

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation of Czech Sentence Embeddings: Semantic Relevance Doesn't Help with MT Evaluation
Petra Baran\v{c}\'ikov\'a, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20203

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation of Czech Sentence Embeddings: Semantic Relevance Doesn't Help with MT Evaluation
In this paper, we compare Czech-specific and multilingual sentence embedding models through intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation paradigms. For intrinsic evaluation, we employ Costra, a complex sentence transformation dataset, and several Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) benchmarks to assess the ability of the embeddings to capture linguistic phenomena such as semantic similarity, temporal aspects, and stylistic variations. In the extrinsic evaluation, we fine-tune each embedding model using COM…