Tootfinder

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Interactive resizing of picture and table content in Rmd and Quarto: #rstats

'Hortman played a central role in MN's pursuit of racial justice, actively participating in vital police reform legislation. [H]er efforts continue to shape the state. Significant reforms include prohibitions on neck restraints and chokeholds, banning "warrior-style" training, and the creation of an independent body to investigate police misconduct.'
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse | The Root
https://www.theroot.com/white-george-floyd-advocate-and-husband-target-of-polit-2000045678

"MediaMatters for America" is good to read. ALWAYS. Here's their story about how media is reporting on, and ignoring, our own governments plans to implement NAZI "ethnic cleansing" deportations.
https://www.mediamatt…

Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term long used by far-right extremists to describe ethnic cleansing. 

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

crikey, on compiler explorer you can hash include a url https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/issues/1442

How do you include files from urls? · Issue #1442 · compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer
I have seen some talk where compiler explorer accepts includes from URL. For example #include "https://...." Is there an option to allow this and make it work?

Cowboys' new workouts include 75-game NFL starter, All-UFL defender, former draft picks https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/12/cowboys-workouts-nfl-ufl-experience/84167152007/

How to politely use assert in a header (gcc/clang/msvc/what else?):
#pragma push_macro("NDEBUG")
#undef NDEBUG
#include <assert.h>
// your asserts should properly asser…

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

"Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content."
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governm

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Out for a walk.

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Soumyabrata Paul, V. Balakrishnan, S. Ramanan, S. Lakshmibala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10760

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two different states or density matrices in terms of `distances' between the respective probability distributions include the Kullback-Leibler divergence $D_{\rm KL}$, the Bhattacharyya distance $D_{\rm B}$, and the $p$-Wasserstein distance $W_{p}$. We present a …

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
Dong Hae Mangalindan, Karthik Kandikonda, Ericka Rovira, Vaibhav Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10884

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
With increasing efficiency and reliability, autonomous systems are becoming valuable assistants to humans in various tasks. In the context of robot-assisted delivery, we investigate how robot performance and trust repair strategies impact human trust. In this task, while handling a secondary task, humans can choose to either send the robot to deliver autonomously or manually control it. The trust repair strategies examined include short and long explanations, apology and promise, and denial. …

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings:
“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025 https://www.billboard.com/photos/musicians-who-died-2025-1235881159/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music…

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025
Musicians who died in 2025 include Marianne Faithfull, Garth Hudson, John Sykes, Sam Moore and more.

Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Randy Palamar, Mohammad Rahim Sobhani, Darren Dahunsi, Negar Majidi, Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi, Joy Wang, Jeremy Brown, Roger Zemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10958

Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Row-Column Arrays (RCAs) offer an attractive alternative to fully wired 2D-arrays for 3D-ultrasound, due to their greatly simplified wiring. However, conventional RCAs face challenges related to their long elements. These include an inability to image beyond the shadow of the aperture and an inability to focus in both transmit and receive for desired scan planes. To address these limitations, we recently developed bias-switchable RCAs, also known as Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode (TOBE) arr…

Doritos, M&Ms Could Be Forced to Include Warning Labels in Texas (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-02/doritos-m-ms-could-be-forced-to-include-warning-labels-in-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p147#a250602p147

This episode was incredibly good! It’s super interesting that HTML imports would actually be possible (and also that they might be called <rupert> – and include lazy loading)! Thank you guys! 👏
https://front-end.social/@shoptalkshow/114652349874960200

Green Scheduling with Time-of-Use Tariffs and Machine States: Optimizing Energy Cost via Branch-and-Bound and Bin Packing Strategies
Ond\v{r}ej Benedikt, Istv\'an M\'odos, Antonin Novak, Zden\v{e}k Hanz\'alek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10405

Green Scheduling with Time-of-Use Tariffs and Machine States: Optimizing Energy Cost via Branch-and-Bound and Bin Packing Strategies
This paper presents a branch-and-bound algorithm, enhanced with bin packing strategies, for scheduling under variable energy pricing and power-saving states. The proposed algorithm addresses the 1,TOU|states|TEC problem, which involves scheduling jobs to minimize total energy cost (TEC) while considering time-of-use (TOU) electricity prices and different machine states (e.g., processing, idle, off). Key innovations include instance pre-processing for rapid lower bound calculations, a …

Amazing. #Gemini just wrote this #LAMP app for me to keep notes in folders with formatting in #markdown.
"Write a LAMP app for keeping notes. Include the ability to create, edit, and delete n…

GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data
Zezhou Huang, Krystian Sakowski, Hans Lehnert, Wei Cui, Carlo Curino, Matteo Interlandi, Marius Dumitru, Rathijit Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10092

GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data
GPUs are uniquely suited to accelerate (SQL) analytics workloads thanks to their massive compute parallelism and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) -- when datasets fit in the GPU HBM, performance is unparalleled. Unfortunately, GPU HBMs remain typically small when compared with lower-bandwidth CPU main memory. Besides brute-force scaling across many GPUs, current solutions to accelerate queries on large datasets include leveraging data partitioning and loading smaller data batches in GPU HBM, and hyb…

Precision predictions of Starobinsky inflation with self-consistent Weyl-squared corrections
Eugenio Bianchi, Mauricio Gamonal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10081

Precision predictions of Starobinsky inflation with self-consistent Weyl-squared corrections
Starobinsky's $R+αR^2$ inflation provides a compelling one-parameter inflationary model that is supported by current cosmological observations. However, at the same order in spacetime derivatives as the $R^2$ term, an effective theory of spacetime geometry must also include the Weyl-squared curvature invariant $W^2$. In this paper, we study the inflationary predictions of the gravitational theory with action of the form $R+αR^2 - βW^2$, where the coupling constant $α$ sets the scale of infl…

Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
Ekaterina Grishina, Matvey Smirnov, Maxim Rakhuba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10935

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
The problem of computing optimal orthogonal approximation to a given matrix has attracted growing interest in machine learning. Notable applications include the recent Muon optimizer or Riemannian optimization on the Stiefel manifold. Among existing approaches, the Newton-Schulz iteration has emerged as a particularly effective solution, as it relies solely on matrix multiplications and thus achieves high computational efficiency on GPU hardware. Despite its efficiency, the method has inherent …

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

7 winners from Dallas Cowboys 2025 OTAs include shocking RB1 candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/7-winners-from-dallas-cowboys-2025-otas-include-shocking-rb1-candidate

Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. Does that include your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/beyond-dogma-can-compassion-exist-without-compromise/

Beyond Dogma: Can Compassion Exist Without Compromise? – Bob Mueller
Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. What about your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?

"Two final considerations include (1) the necessity of being both deliberate and strategic and (2) the importance of being flexible and even whimsical about your future."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.…

Every few years I go and dig out a 65-line C program that I wrote as a grad student and try to gently poke it through a compiler but I finally got tired of that and replaced it with a 10-line awk script.
Wow, take a look at this jalopy! Written ca. 1977 (with ed(1), the standard editor) on a PDP-11/45 running V7, prob'ly on an ADM-3A "glass terminal" in the terminal room on the second floor of the E-Quad.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Entropy proxy inversions as tracers of the evolution of physical conditions at the base of the solar convective envelope
G. Buldgen, A. Noels, V. A. Baturin, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, S. V. Ayukov, A. V. Oreshina, R. Scuflaire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09503

Entropy proxy inversions as tracers of the evolution of physical conditions at the base of the solar convective envelope
The Sun is an important calibrator for the theory of stellar structure and evolution. However, the accuracy of our solar evolution models is tightly linked to the physical ingredients that enter their computations. This include, amongst other, the equation of state, the opacities, the transport of chemicals and the modelling of turbulent convection. Deriving model-independent probes of these ingredients is therefore crucial to further test the quality of these ingredients and potentially reveal…

Precision $e^ e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections
Andre H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Matthew D. Schwartz, Iain W. Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09130

Precision $e^+e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections
We derive high-precision results for the $e^+e^-$ heavy jet mass (HJM) $d σ/d ρ$ and dihemisphere mass (DHM) $d^2σ/(d s_1 d s_2)$ distributions, for $s_1\sim s_2$, in the dijet region. New results include: i) the N$^3$LL resummation for HJM of large logarithms $\ln^n(ρ)$ at small $ρ$ including the exact two-loop non-global hemisphere soft function, the 4-loop cusp anomalous dimension and the 3-loop hard and jet functions, ii) N$^3$LL results for DHM with resummation of logarithms $\ln(s_{1…

My interests include being interested in interesting things.

Novel browser extension idea: Site bookmarks
Sometimes bookmarks are only useful when you're on a specific website, when visiting a specific page, etc. This extension would let you create a bookmark that would only show up as a suggestion on specific pages
Extra credit: allow users to configure include/exclude rules for showing a bookmark

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Mishall Al-Zubaidie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08828

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Digital terrorism is a major cause of securing patient/healthcare providers data and information. Sensitive topics that may have an impact on a patient's health or even national security include patient health records and information on healthcare providers. Health databases and data sets have been continually breached by many, regular assaults, as well as local and remote servers equipped with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in diverse locations. The problem was addressed by some contemporary …

Evidence for Dual Periodic Signatures in PKS 0805-07 from Multi-technique Time Series Analysis
Sikandar Akbar, Zahir Shah, Ranjeev Misra, Sajad Boked, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09602

Evidence for Dual Periodic Signatures in PKS 0805-07 from Multi-technique Time Series Analysis
We report the identification of two statistically significant quasi-periodic oscillations in the weekly binned $γ$-ray light curve of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 0805$-$07, observed by Fermi-LAT over the period MJD 59047.5-59740.5. By applying a suite of complementary time-series analysis techniques, we identify periodic signatures at approximately 255 and 112 days. These techniques include the Lomb-Scargle periodogram (LSP), Weighted Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ), REDFIT, Date-Compensated …

SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
Anna Bonaldi, Philippa Hartley, Simon Purser, Omkar Bait, Eunseong Lee, Robert Braun, Florent Mertens, Andrea Bracco, Wendy Williams, Cath Trott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09533

SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
We present a realistic simulation of an SKA-Low cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation (CD/EoR) observation, which can be used to further the development of foreground-mitigation approaches. The simulation corresponds to a deep (1000 h) integration pointing over the 106 MHz-196 MHz frequency range. The sky components include the CD/EoR signal, extragalactic foreground emission featuring strong (over 5 Jy at 150 MHz) out-of-field sources and in-field sources down to 1 microJy at 150 MHz, and Galactic…

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
Alvaro Becerra, Daniel Andres, Pablo Villegas, Roberto Daza, Ruth Cobos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08634

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
In this article, we present a novel multimodal feedback framework called MOSAIC-F, an acronym for a data-driven Framework that integrates Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA), Observations, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Collaborative assessments for generating personalized feedback on student learning activities. This framework consists of four key steps. First, peers and professors' assessments are conducted through standardized rubrics (that include both quantitative and qualitat…

Angular Blog editor Minko Gechev shares what's new on Angular 20. Highlights include newly stabilized APIs, improved debugging tools, polishing the developer experience, and features to enhance generative AI development.
Also, the Angular team has launched an RFC to pick an official mascot for Angular. Isn't that great?
"Announcing Angular v20"

Mergers of galaxies
Sugata Kaviraj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09136 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09136…

Mergers of galaxies
The evolution of our Universe is strongly influenced by the attractive force of gravity. A key aspect of this evolution, therefore, is the merging of galaxies. Here, we explore the role of mergers in shaping the properties of massive galaxies over cosmic time. Observational methods of finding mergers include identifying galaxy pairs in close proximity, visual inspection of galaxy images to identify signatures of mergers (e.g. tidal features) and using morphological parameters such as Asymmetry …

networking folks: the minimum Ethernet frame size is 64 octets, right? does that include the FCS?

Localization sequences for logarithmic topological cyclic homology
John Rognes, Steffen Sagave, Christian Schlichtkrull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08492 ht…

Localization sequences for logarithmic topological cyclic homology
We introduce the notion of an E_k-ring with prelogarithmic structure, define logarithmic topological Hochschild homology and logarithmic topological cyclic homology in this context, and establish localization sequences for these theories. Our approach is based on Thom R-algebras. It extends and strengthens our earlier work on the subject in several regards. Our examples include the fraction field of topological K-theory, the existence of which was suggested by calculations by Ausoni and the fir…

Meta is preparing to unveil a new artificial intelligence research lab
dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”
a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain,
as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race,
according to four people with the knowledge of the company’s plans.
Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28,
the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI,
to join the new lab, the people s…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning
Neal Mangaokar, Ashish Hooda, Zhuohang Li, Bradley A. Malin, Kassem Fawaz, Somesh Jha, Atul Prakash, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06003

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning
Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often fail under the strict definition of membership based on exact matching, and have suggested relaxing this definition to include semantic neighbors as members as well. In this work, we show that membership inference tests are still unreliable under this relaxation - it is possible to poison the training dataset in a way…

Question: To you, what is the relationship between society and stories?
My aim is to discover more perspectives than what I'm familiar with.
Bonus: Include a description of a visualisation.
Example: recycle symbol between society & stories, mirror, time travel machine, etc.
Thank you! And let me know if you need more info!

This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

Correlative angstrom-scale microscopy and spectroscopy of graphite-water interfaces
Lalith Krishna Samanth Bonagiri, Diana M. Arvelo, Fujia Zhao, Jaehyeon Kim, Qian Ai, Shan Zhou, Kaustubh S. Panse, Ricardo Garcia, Yingjie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09908

Correlative angstrom-scale microscopy and spectroscopy of graphite-water interfaces
Water at solid surfaces is key for many processes ranging from biological signal transduction to membrane separation and renewable energy conversion. However, under realistic conditions, which often include environmental and surface charge variations, the interfacial water structure remains elusive. Here we overcome this limit by combining three-dimensional atomic force microscopy and interface-sensitive Raman spectroscopy to characterize the graphite-water interfacial structure in situ. Throug…

"UK government mandates solar panels for new homes in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower

UK government mandates solar panels for new homes in England
Future Homes Standard to include solar panel mandate for new homes, UK government confirms. New building regulations are expected to make PV a requirement for almost all homes, with only “rare exceptions” where impact would be negligible, according to UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.

Do the #BBC hand over website news stories to the work experience kids at the weekend, or something? This is embarrassingly bad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7zngr6jn5o

Spending Review to include £86bn for science and tech
The government says every corner of the country will benefit, but research backers call for a long-term plan for science.

I remember a time when I called a business and someone answered. Now when the phone is answered, I am immediately put on hold to listen to annoying computer generated music, then an announcement about how much they value my business, then a land acknowledgement, then a warning about abusive language or behaviour, then a number select menu, which does not include “talk to the receptionist”, then I pick a number and have to leave a message! 🤷😠

Viele Menschen verstehen #Warnungen wie „#Hitzeindex“ oder „#Hitzewarnung“ falsch. Das zeigt eine US-Studie.
Fast die Hälfte hält den Hitzeindex für die reine

Bridging the Gap between National Weather Service Heat Terminology and Public Understanding
Abstract Clearly communicating heat warning information to the public is an important way to reduce heat mortality and morbidity. However, heat communication interventions from the National Weather Service commonly include technical and scientific terms, otherwise known as jargon. These terms, such as heat advisory or heat index, may not be understood by the public. Given the importance of message understanding in protective action decision-making, the purpose of this study is to assess how the…

REVEALED: Jun 6, 2025
Science & Tech:
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I solved it in 1️⃣ Reveals & 0️⃣ Hints!
#Revealed #WordPuzzle
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Revealed, a Daily Puzzle Game | Britannica
Uncover something interesting: Guess the topic using the fewest Reveals and Hints. Topics include People, Science & Tech, History & Society, and more.

Fubo and DAZN announce a multi-year deal to distribute their linear channels, which include exclusive sports rights, on each other's platforms in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/fubo-and-dazn-strike-multi-year-spo…

Fubo and DAZN Strike Multi-Year Sports TV Network Partnership
The pact will see the streamers distribute their owned-and-operated linear channels on each other's U.S. platforms.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02499 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_…

DnR-nonverbal: Cinematic Audio Source Separation Dataset Containing Non-Verbal Sounds
We propose a new dataset for cinematic audio source separation (CASS) that handles non-verbal sounds. Existing CASS datasets only contain reading-style sounds as a speech stem. These datasets differ from actual movie audio, which is more likely to include acted-out voices. Consequently, models trained on conventional datasets tend to have issues where emotionally heightened voices, such as laughter and screams, are more easily separated as an effect, not speech. To address this problem, we buil…

Containerized In-Storage Processing and Computing-Enabled SSD Disaggregation
Miryeong Kwon, Donghyun Gouk, Eunjee Na, Jiseon Kim, Junhee Kim, Hyein Woo, Eojin Ryu, Hyunkyu Choi, Jinwoo Baek, Hanyeoreum Bae, Mahmut Kandemir, Myoungsoo Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06769

Containerized In-Storage Processing and Computing-Enabled SSD Disaggregation
ISP minimizes data transfer for analytics but faces challenges in adaptation and disaggregation. We propose DockerSSD, an ISP model leveraging OS-level virtualization and lightweight firmware to enable containerized data processing directly on SSDs. Key features include Ethernet over NVMe for network-based ISP management and Virtual Firmware for secure, efficient container execution. DockerSSD supports disaggregated storage pools, reducing host overhead and enhancing large-scale services like L…

“#Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners”
The local mafia is going to be *cheesed* about this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo

Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners for money | CBC News
The alleged crimes include one in February where a restaurant’s glass facade was shot on Ste-Catherine Street West, near De Bleury Street. Another restaurant owned by the victims was also targeted, as was the residence of one of the co-owners, the SPVM says.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02073 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Debiased regression adjustment in completely randomized experiments with moderately high-dimensional covariates
Completely randomized experiment is the gold standard for causal inference. When the covariate information for each experimental candidate is available, one typical way is to include them in covariate adjustments for more accurate treatment effect estimation. In this paper, we investigate this problem under the randomization-based framework, i.e., that the covariates and potential outcomes of all experimental candidates are assumed as deterministic quantities and the randomness comes solely fro…

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

Sources: Meta plans to unveil an AI lab dedicated to "superintelligence", led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and is offering seven- to nine-figure compensation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

TransLink and the City of New Westminster have completed major upgrades to a 737-metre stretch of the BC Parkway along Stewardson Way, between River Drive and 14th Street. These enhancements are designed to improve safety, comfort, and accessibility along this vital active transportation corridor.
Key upgrades include:
A widened pathway with separate lanes for cyclists and pedestrians making it comfortable and convenient for all modes of active transportation

Cool! @…'s /e/OS 3.0 will include a pre-installed #FindMyDevice feature! 😎
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22889 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Variational formulation of dynamical electronic response functions in presence of nonlocal exchange interactions
We consider the dynamical electronic response function in theoretical frameworks that include nonlocal exchange interactions, such as the Bethe-Salpeter equation with the frequency independent approximation of the screened interaction, Hartree-Fock, and range-separated Hybrid DFT approaches. Within these pictures, we demonstrate that any time-dependent electronic linear response function allows for a formulation which is variational in the electronic density matrix. To achieve our goal, we cons…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Rust's Stable MIR project is being slept on. It's pitched as a tool for formal verification, but it's more general than that. Once stabilized, it will almost be a stable compiler plugin API!
It doesn't just include what you get from `--emit=mir` (IR for each function), but also has full type and trait information, and will likely even support interactive queries like "does type implement trait”.
In short, it'll be perfect for metaprogramming!
[1/2]…

Yay, I finally figured out how to build HTML documentation of my custom :nixos: #NixOS options. 🥳
Some thoughts:
- It still contains *all* normal NixOS options (it's a 13MB HTML file...)
- I don't see a way to filter for only my custom options - be it just by regex for example
- It's the documentation of *possible* options, doesn't include the actually chosen val…

📝 `nix build .#docs` now builds a HTML with NixOS options config (including custom ones) (b7be1d09) · Commits · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13751 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Notions of entropy for unitary representations
Several notions of entropy are studied widely in the ergodic theory of probability-preserving actions of countable groups. These include the generalization of Kolmogorov--Sinai entropy for amenable groups using Følner sequences, percolative entropy entropy for general countable groups, and Bowen's sofic entropy for sofic groups. In this work we pursue these notions across the analogy between ergodic theory and representation theory. We arrive at new quantities associated to unitary represent…

ArcNeural: A Multi-Modal Database for the Gen-AI Era
Wu Min, Qiao Yuncong, Yu Tan, Chenghu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09467 https://

ArcNeural: A Multi-Modal Database for the Gen-AI Era
ArcNeural introduces a novel multimodal database tailored for the demands of Generative AI and Large Language Models, enabling efficient management of diverse data types such as graphs, vectors, and documents. Its storage-compute separated architecture integrates graph technology, advanced vector indexing, and transaction processing to support real-time analytics and AI-driven applications. Key features include a unified storage layer, adaptive edge collection in MemEngine, and seamless integra…

Today the #SemDH2025 workshop takes place alongside #ESWC2025. I’m happy that Philipp Tögel will present our paper on Data-rich Web Annotations. We discuss how web annotations, a W3C standard, can be leveraged to include complex analysis with domain-specific data models as

High count rate effects in event processing for XRISM/Resolve x-ray microcalorimeter: II. Energy scale and resolution in orbit
Misaki Mizumoto, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Shinya Yamada, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Megan E. Eckart, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Tsubasa Tamba
https://arxiv.org…

High count rate effects in event processing for XRISM/Resolve x-ray microcalorimeter: II. Energy scale and resolution in orbit
The Resolve instrument on the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) uses a 36-pixel microcalorimeter designed to deliver high-resolution, non-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Although it is optimized for extended sources with low count rates, Resolve observations of bright point sources are still able to provide unique insights into the physics of these objects, as long as high count rate effects are addressed in the analysis. These effects include {the loss of exposure time for each pix…

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Gradient flow in the kernel learning problem
Yang Li, Feng Ruan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08550 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08550

Gradient flow in the kernel learning problem
This is a sequel to our paper `On the kernel learning problem'. We identify a canonical choice of Riemannian gradient flow, to find the stationary points in the kernel learning problem. In the presence of Gaussian noise variables, this flow enjoys the remarkable property of having a continuous family of Lyapunov functionals, and the interpretation is the automatic reduction of noise. PS. We include an extensive discussion in the postcript explaining the comparison with the 2-layer neural netw…

Compression of executable QR codes or sQRy for Industry: an example for Wi-Fi access points
Stefano Scanzio, Gabriele Formis, Pietro Chiavassa, Lukasz Wisniewski, Gianluca Cena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06100

Compression of executable QR codes or sQRy for Industry: an example for Wi-Fi access points
Executable QR codes, or sQRy, is a technology dated 2022 that permits to include a runnable program inside a QR code, enabling interaction with the user even in the absence of an Internet connection. sQRy are enablers for different practical applications, including network equipment configuration, diagnostics, and enhanced smart manuals in industrial contexts. Many other non-industry-related fields can also benefit from this technology. Regardless of where sQRy are used, text strings are among …

Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsof…

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft has worked with Asus to launch two new Xbox Ally devices. Both include improvements to Windows on handhelds with a full-screen Xbox experience.

House Republicans quietly expanded their proposed Medicaid ban to include trans adults - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/medicaid-ban-transgender-adults-gender-affirming-care/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14446 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Light deflection in unified gravity and measurable deviation from general relativity
Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. Instead, it follows the curvature of spacetime as predicted by general relativity. In this work, we apply the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)], formulated as an extension of the Standard Model to include gravity. Using dynamical equations, we calculate gravitational deflection of light near astrophysical objects without need to use a curved metric. We do not use a single f…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
Andrew K. Hughes, Francesco Carotenuto, Thomas D. Russell, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian, Joe S. Bright, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Mark A. Gurwell, Jasvinderjit K. Khaulsay, Anastasia Kirby, Serena Jones, Elodie Lescure, Michael McCollough, Richard M. Plotkin, Ramprasad Rao, Saeqa D. Vrtilek, David R. A. Williams-Baldwin, Callan M. Wo…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
This work presents comprehensive multi-frequency radio monitoring of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613, which underwent its first recorded outburst after its discovery in August 2023. Through a considerable community effort, we have coalesced the data from multiple, distinct observing programs; the light curves include ${\sim} 10$ months and 197 epochs of monitoring from 7 radio facilities with observing frequencies ranging from (approximately) 0.3$-$230GHz. The primary …

Trump's proposed budget is a fiscal tightening relative to current policy.
And it doesn't even include the extra tightening from tariffs.
https://x.com/firstadopter/status/1930317264252793138/photo/1

tae kim (@firstadopter) on X
Great chart on the budget bill (Source: NYTimes)

Quark-universal $U(1)$ breaking scalar at the LHC
Lorin Armbruster, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Felix Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06068 https://

Quark-universal $U(1)$ breaking scalar at the LHC
If the quarks or leptons are charged under a new $U(1)$ gauge symmetry, then besides a $Z'$ boson there must exist at least one new boson whose decay products include Standard Model particles. In the case of a minimal symmetry breaking sector, that new boson is a scalar $ϕ$ that couples to the $Z'$ boson as well as to the new fermions required to cancel the $U(1)$ gauge anomalies. The scalar may be produced at the LHC in association with a $Z'$ boson, or through $Z'$ boson fusion, while its de…

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Optimized projection-free algorithms for online learning: construction and worst-case analysis
Julien Weibel (SIERRA), Pierre Gaillard (Thoth), Wouter M. Koolen (CWI), Adrien Taylor (SIERRA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05855

Optimized projection-free algorithms for online learning: construction and worst-case analysis
This work studies and develop projection-free algorithms for online learning with linear optimization oracles (a.k.a. Frank-Wolfe) for handling the constraint set. More precisely, this work (i) provides an improved (optimized) variant of an online Frank-Wolfe algorithm along with its conceptually simple potential-based proof, and (ii) shows how to leverage semidefinite programming to jointly design and analyze online Frank-Wolfe-type algorithms numerically in a variety of settings-that include …

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/680723/walmart-wing…

Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores
Walmart and Wing announced an expansion of their drone delivery partnership to include 100 additional stores in five new cities.

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started out in 2012, and its involvement in cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns (The Insider)
https://theins.press/en/inv/281731

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in Montenegro. But its activities in cyberspace remained in the shadows — until now. After reviewing a trove of hidden data, The Insider can report that the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad also fielded a team of hackers — one that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the months before …

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 453 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 511 nodes and 35013 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish