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Bookmarked: Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw-entwickelt-altgriechisch-ki-apollo-mit-mistral-1

Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply
Austrian Archaeological Institute Develops Custom AI Model for Hundreds of Thousands of Ancient Papyri and Inscriptions ++ Faßmann: “AI and ancient languages are not a contradiction”

Cowboys Urged to Pull Off Shocking Trade With Giants for Kayvon Thibodeaux https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-trade-giants-superstar-kayvon-thibodeaux

Both imploding nuclear superpowers from the Cold War
have become a threat to humanity’s attempts to establish global peace and security.
From Ukraine to Gaza, from Venezuela to Greenland, events are moving very quickly, and this will not likely let up in 2026.
We need difficult, pivotal changes if we are to meet the threats to our sovereignty.
Neo-liberal corporate globalization,
which spread more quickly after the demise of the Soviet Union,
did not bring …

Trump’s malignant narcissism and territorial imperialism fit hand in glove: We urgently need perspective
As the American empire declines, Donald Trump's narcissism is exacerbating global crises.

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is OpenAI's first AI model to run on chips from Nvidia rival Cerebras; OpenAI says Codex has more than 1M weekly active users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12…

Tanken wird gerade richtig teuer – und die Tankstellenbetreiber sind genauso sauer wie ihr. 😤
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11203492?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

"Sharp-tongued viewers first took aim at the single, timed nibble McDonald's CEO Kempczinski took from the XXL burger during the entire 81-second video."
Competitors Burger King and Wendy's pounced,
issuing snarky videos of their own execs happily chomping on their burgers.

McDonald’s CEO Wanted to Sell a Burger. Instead, He Sparked a Viral Lesson in Executive Self‑Awareness
The failure of one CEO’s video, paired with a rival’s sparkling success, provides attention-seeking bosses a tough reminder.

Kein ernsthafter Regisseur käme auf die Idee, Trump als Superschurken zu besetzen. Allenfalls als comical Sidekick des wahren Superschur… Oh. Ohhhhhhhh!
#pol #uspol #rupol

The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant: #stars

The big problem I have with government IT procurement decision makers - here in Aotearoa NZ and elsewhere - is that they *don't _revile_ US BigTech*. If they've paid the slightest bit of attention to their field, they know they have *every reason to do so*. So they definitely should. If they did, the world would be a better place, by far.
At present, our bureaucrats are licking the boots of the oppressors of their nations, the defilers of their sovereignty.

Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirl-stabilized flames using the front propagation formulation: impact of the resolved flame thickness
Ruochen Guo, Yunde Su, Yuewen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21940
arXiv:2602.21940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame dynamics. The FPF method is designed to mitigate the spurious propagation of under-resolved flames while preserving the reaction characteristics of filtered flame fronts. In this study, the model is extended to account for non-adiabatic effects and is coupled with an improved sub-filter flame speed estimation that resolves the inconsistency arising from heat-release effects on local sub-filter turbulence. The performance of the extended FPF method is validated by LES of the TECFLAM swirl-stabilized burner, where the results agree well with experimental measurements. The simulations reveal that the stretching of vortical structures in the outer shear layer leads to the formation of trapped flame pockets, which are identified as the physical mechanism responsible for the secondary temperature peaks observed in the experiment. The prediction of this phenomenon is shown to be strongly dependent on the resolved flame thickness, when the filter size is used for modeling sub-filter flame wrinklings. Without proper modeling of the chemical steepening effects, the thickness of the resolved flame brush is over-predicted, causing the flame consumption rate to be under-estimated. Consequently, the flame brush detaches from the outer shear layer, resulting in a failure to capture the flame pockets and the associated secondary temperature peaks.
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