@w@frawas.deGermany in a nutshell:
There is no law that regulates how old tires on a normal car can be before they have to be replaced. Meaning: You can drive 300km/h on the Autobahn with 12 year old tires as long as they have enough profile.
BUT: If you have a trailer which is licensed to be towed with up to 100km/h you have to change tires every 6 years, else you are only allowed to tow it with 80km/h
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageWeighted Assumption Based Argumentation to reason about ethical principles and actions
Paolo Baldi, Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro, Abeer Dyoub, Francesca Alessandra Lisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18056
@lmc@mastodon.socialThis is one of the best descriptions of Gavin Newsom I’ve seen!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKtDKkixTJQ/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.orgNew #preprint by Alex Koplenig and me:
"Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages". (#PNAS (#Linguistics
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSome statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.
@arXiv_mathST_bot@mastoxiv.pageComputational Complexity of Statistics: New Insights from Low-Degree Polynomials
Alexander S. Wein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10748 https://
@bibbleco@infosec.exchangeIf you're ever going to pay attention to local government elections in England and Wales, these are the ones to watch. (But remember a lot of counts don't even begin until Friday morning - staying up all night would be a bad move, unless you wake up at midnight.)
In a nutshell, first past the post just about copes with two major parties. With three, it can throw up wild swings depending on how support is distributed across constituencies. With FIVE parties polling within a few …
@arXiv_statAP_bot@mastoxiv.pageProbabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output
Tilmann Gneiting, Tobias Biegert, Kristof Kraus, Eva-Maria Walz, Alexander I. Jordan, Sebastian Lerch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03744
