»The origins of the exact dimensions of Letter size paper are lost in tradition and not well documented. The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual papermaking and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms."« 🤡
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cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
Fascism Wrapped in Christmas Paper
How Anti-Migrant Politics Disfigures Christian Ethics: The Case of Badalona, Spain.
Alberto Garzón
https://agarzon.substack.com/p/fascism-wrapped-in-christmas-paper
An X-ray-Emitting Proto-Cluster at z ≈ 5.7 Reveals Rapid Structure Growth: #GalaxyCluster in Early Universe: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_012826.html
OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/…
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague:
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
-- Wolfgang Pauli
I spent much of today cleaning my office. It's amazing how messy it gets due to ongoing projects (my own and client projects) and so much paper. I was saving a lot of it for paper making but I've still got plenty of pulp in the fridge to use.
On Friday, the plan is no shopping, just cleaning the basement getting rid of cruft, maybe finding some things to donate or give away if possible.
Reading a preprint paper on threat intelligence dated December 2025, and it claims that MISP uses an XML format and that OpenIOC is still commonly used.
I’m guessing they relied on an LLM trained on a 2014-era dataset.
#cti #paper
Westbound Railway Platform, 9:58am
Late autumn gusts, a
Long strand of floating toilet
Paper, and sunlight.
#haiku
An electrode-based #Neuralink #Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex will not scale to large numbers of blind patients nor to normal-like vision beyond showing a few rough edges
I’m learning about the Nipah virus outbreak in South Asia.
I’m getting the same feeling that I had in late December 2019, which led me to tell my wife to start buying toilet paper.
#nipah #covid #pandemic
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@…
Did you ever create your IR dazzler hats?
I found an interesting paper on another method that might work without being so obvious. I ordered 5 higher powered LEDs and am playing with them to see what they do as far as modifying how my face appears on a camera.. I need to figure a method to keep them aimed.
It's crazy how two people doing something in a garage can get folks to turn it into something of a religion, where individuals are willing to pay millions for paper. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115616484841704061
i started using the pot yesterday, what are my top 5 favourite toilet paper brand
I love that my campus's first student newspaper, founded from the ashes of an earlier paper in 1974 by a bunch of McLuhan fanatics, was called the Medium II. Why II? Because the official name of the campus radio station, that no one ever used, was the Medium (McLuhan was big at the University of Toronto). Since the fall of 1994, the paper has officially been known simply as the Medium, making it the only thing I can think of that had a "2" dropped from rather than appended to i…
RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").
After a long session yesterday evening I finally managed to print custom QR code labels for #paperless onto sticker label A4 sheets. The QR code contains 'TAG:👛 Yann' and paperless can be configured to auto-detect that in scanned documents (such as receipts) and auto-attach a tag '👛 Yann' to know from whose purse that receipt was, which is very handy for
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/115616714571997253
Or.. here's a thought. Paper the interior - you know, where we've clearcut all the trees - with solar farms?
Srsly, that drive through the interior is so drepressing.
Storm bound in Antarctica and catching up with reading, including an *excellent* paper by one of our PhD students on #DeepLearning applications, soon to be submitted.
Not for first time I'm struck that 1) there is a genuine #AI revolution in climate 2) It's mostly based on ERA-5 reanalysis.
John Loftus has a comprehensive new paper on #Atheist morality: his peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. http://www.debunking-…
My peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions.
Christian Apologetics, Bible, Biblical Christianity, Christian Faith, Agnostic, Evangelical, Atheism, Atheist, Creation, John W. Loftus, David Madison
Lezenswaardig position paper "Gevolgen van de Solvinity-overname voor Logius-dienstverlening",
#solvinity
Sonnet 038 - XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse?
O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give invention light?
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old n…
#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:
I'm supervising 4 undergrads working on small pieces of my research project. Their role is to comb through archival materials, to identify a modest research question, and to write a long paper answering that question. One of the students dropped by my office this morning to chat about progress. Just before leaving, they said, "I've written papers before. But they were all based on things people'd already written - I knew the answer. This is so much more fun. I feel like a de…
Saw two different groups of protestors out in the cold on the way back from buying toilet paper
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
This is the level of prep my wife brings to Christmas lunch. Can you tell she's a scientist? As you can see, it's going well. I've been assigned a few tasks, but she mostly wants to do this herself, it seems.
#Christmas
""On paper, it was a Star Trek parody. It turned into a cult classic so beloved it was voted in 2013 by Trekers as the seventh greatest #StarTrek film ever made.
But what makes #GalaxyQuest brilliant isn't just the premise or the jokes or how well it respects the genre…
Mastodon, we got you this cat for the holidays. #CatsOfMastodon
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online
It still amazes me that you can be arrested for holding a small paper sign that says you are against the wholesale murder of an entire ethnic group, but seemingly not for actually doing the murdering.
Paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
🌱 https://docs.paperless-ngx.com
The BBC charter green paper does at least acknowledge the licence fee's elephant in the room - we're potentially, maybe, ten to fifteen years away from switching off terrestrial TV broadcast towers.
A friend of mine rooted my #Roborock S7 robot vacuum and installed custom software called #Valetudo. Now it runs completely without needing to connect to the manufacturer's servers in China, which gives me more peace of mind. I was surprised that almost all the original fun…
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
New open-access paper: Degrowth is popular in the US and UK!
The label "degrowth" is not, but the policy substance is. "Ecosocialism" or "well-being economy" were labels that got better reactions.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/<…
Still just blown away that John Calhoun, the guy who made Glider (and several other games in this post on Mac games I'm researching and writing) is still active online with his blog/site https://www.engineersneedart.com and he's put a bunch of the old Soft Dorothy stuff over at GitHub:
Griot Galaxy - "Live on WUOM 1979" (2025)
#NowPlaying #GriotGalaxy #DetroitJazz #vinyl
The cycle where bent paper clips are used for resets/ejects and now devices are supplied with specially designed pre-bent not-paperclips. Crazy. 📎
Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.
Publisher website (#Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"
#Scihub
reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at
i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and building hash tables for chess endgames which was most of the time)
Targeted cooling of urban cycling networks for heat-resilient mobility
#cycling!
@… Yes, we are losing all that history that once used to be in paper letters. I have no idea what future historians will be able to see.
Tonight, we will have a few printed copies of the paper we will discuss next week at @…. If there are any left when you get here, you can have one. The link to the paper is below, and the Papers Club Edition will take place on January 25th.
Tonight’s edition of Tech Pizza Monday is a regular edition. 6 PM, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. You have a week fr…
arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.
…
OK, but the results are still just paper links, not what the LLM thinks about them. So the only thing that changed is that it is much much slower now?
Maybe the LLM just formulates a query to the old scholar? Too many layers of "oh how can we build an LLM into this"...
OK, nobody in #math uses Google Scholar like this anyway. We only use it look at publication records of people and do reverse citation search (which papers cite this one I have).
While trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment,
I came across a sentence buried in a research paper:
“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
I read it again.
Three times the minimum food budget.
I felt sick.
"A high acuity is trivially obtained at the expense of field of view through suitable enlarging optics, so whenever a high acuity is claimed for a visual prosthesis one must also check if the corresponding field of view is better than tunnel vision." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink
And here is now also a spectrum of #comet #3I/ATLAS taken during the #ShadowTheScientists session on 26 November, from https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17561 - CN (388 nm), C3 (402 nm) and C2 (474 nm/517 nm) are detected. Meanwhile the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 concludes from the non-gravitational acceleration that the diameter of the comet's nucleus is 820 to1050 m.
citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
I'm working with household legislators to enact a Dad Congestion Pricing scheme. We charge a kid $0.25 for every "hey dad?". A white paper produced by the Dept of Annoyance shows that a modest fee structure could bring the rate of "hey dad?"s down to a rate of around one or two per minute, while not being so burdensome as to hinder kids from saying things like "hey dad? the microwave is on fire."
DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
The official Epson Print Layout application is such an annoying piece of bad software, bug ridden and slowly turning out to be quite costly (when working with expensive fine art inks & paper, costing 2.50 EUR per page)...
Any recommendations for alternatives (which also support the P900 advanced ink settings?)
Just one example: I go through the effort to create a nice custom page layout in a certain orientation (e.g. A3 landscape). The app also shows the preview correctly, bu…
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
I just had a paper accepted on #AtmosphericRivers in # Antarctica (expect more on that later), this is a great piece on what they are and how they're observed
European aircraft to track ‘rivers in the sky’ blamed for flooding - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/df1f3e7f-6463-4616-85ca-49591fa9ec00 via @FT
arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups,
the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge:
Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
This is one of the unintended consequences of the Trump administration’s focus on mass deportations.
For months, ICE has been on a recruiting blitz,
offering $50,000 starting bonuses and tuition reimbursement
citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
Well that was a truly excellent paper. Not only are the kids alright, they never cease to give me hope.
arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted