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I'm getting quotations for installation of a house battery and car charger. I'd be more impressed if the salesman knew the difference between kW and kWh

Two intriguing variants of the AAA algorithm for rational approximation
William Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11169 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11169

Two intriguing variants of the AAA algorithm for rational approximation
We consider the problem of finding a rational function in barycentric form to approximate a given function or data set in $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. The famous AAA algorithm, introduced in 2018, constructs such a rational function: the barycentric weights are the entries of the final right singular vector of a Loewner matrix with more rows than columns. We present two variants of the AAA algorithm, inspired by two intriguing quotations from the original paper. In the first, which we call AAA…

There's a handy list of quotations from Charlie Kirk here. His own words are chilling and certainly justify the description of extreme right.
That doesn't mean that he should have been murdered. Just shunned by anyone with any trace of decency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/…

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
...cont. 1/2

Quotegraph: A Social Network Extracted from Millions of News Quotations
Marko \v{C}uljak, Robert West, Andreas Spitz, Akhil Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17626 https://

Quotegraph: A Social Network Extracted from Millions of News Quotations
We introduce Quotegraph, a novel large-scale social network derived from speaker-attributed quotations in English news articles published between 2008 and 2020. Quotegraph consists of 528 thousand unique nodes and 8.63 million directed edges, pointing from speakers to persons they mention. The nodes are linked to their corresponding items in Wikidata, thereby endowing the dataset with detailed biographic entity information, including nationality, gender, and political affiliation. Being derived…