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While trying out simple #macrophotography gear on my balcony in Bochum, Germany, I caught a tiny (only a millimeter or so) #spider constructing a little web, no more than 5 cm in diameter - and catching a tiny fly almost immediately. Nature's drama at home ... ;-) Panasonic #Lumix DMC-FZ300 with DMW LC-55 close-up lens, either at maximum optical zoom or somewhat into digital. Bright sunlight in the afternoon. All the macro pictures, also of aphids, in https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230385624319362

"Zur Erinnerung an eine große Persönlichkeit: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012)" @…:
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Multi-parameter isospectral Fokker-Planck equations
Choon-Lin Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12939 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12939

Multi-parameter isospectral Fokker-Planck equations
From a given Fokker-Planck equation, a multi-parameter deformed partner Fokker-Planck equation is constructed. This is done by first deleting a set of eigenstates of the original FPE by the multi-step Darboux-Crum transformation, and then reinstating the eigen-energy levels by the reverse Darboux-Crum transformation. Extension to fractional Fokker-Planck equation is briefly discussed. A recent study of the one-parameter isospectral FPE applied to black hole in the thermal potential approach is …

Murderbot - Martha Wells
> I will never figure out how humans decide who gets to sit where and do what, it’s never the same.
#Relatable
#Murderbot #OlisQuotefile

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I wish my university noticed that their ai slop action figure doesn't even contain an action figure https://twitter.com/OUCampusDining/status/1912551712461578581

OU Campus Dining (@OUCampusDining) on X
Meet our action figure Sooner the Chef! 👨‍🍳 Sooner comes with a secret recipe scroll and pouches full of exotic spices and ingredients! #actionfigure #aitrend #oudining

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

I need to get a new laptop for work, where I'll install Linux (Mint, probably, unless otherwise directed) and I'm trying to figure out what model to get.
Can somebody please tell me if the bullshit "AI" features are actually detrimental the same way a dedicated graphics card would be (in my specific scenario)?

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Chris Lake (3) ANOTR (2) Fisher (2) Gorgon City (2) Jorja Smith (2). #myweekcounted 36 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Thermal Fisher information for a rotating BTZ black hole
Everett A. Patterson, Robert B. Mann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12656 https://

Thermal Fisher information for a rotating BTZ black hole
Relativistic quantum metrology provides a framework within which we can quantify the quality of measurement and estimation procedures while accounting for both quantum and relativistic effects. The chief measure for describing such procedures is the Fisher information, which quantifies how sensitive a given estimation is to a variance of some underlying parameter. Recently, the Fisher information has been used to quantify the spacetime information accessible to two-level quantum particle detect…