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Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p68#a250612p68

Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html

#Satellitendaten zeigen einen Rückgang von 22 % bei 16 #Kaiserpinguin-Kolonien in Teilen der #Antarktis zwischen 2009 und 2024.
Hauptursache ist der Verlust stabiler

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday

Russian attacks show with clarity that Putin is mocking Trump, Poland's Sikorski says
Arriving for talks in Rome, Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski said the continued Russian attacks show that
“Vladimir Putin of Russia is mocking the peace efforts of president Donald Trump.”
He also stressed that Europe is stepping up its plans for defence, with increased spending.
Talking about the meeting ahead, he said leaders needed to
“strategise about what to do…

"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/

The RSNA Lumbar Degenerative Imaging Spine Classification (LumbarDISC) Dataset
Tyler J. Richards, Adam E. Flanders, Errol Colak, Luciano M. Prevedello, Robyn L. Ball, Felipe Kitamura, John Mongan, Maryam Vazirabad, Hui-Ming Lin, Anne Kendell, Thanat Kanthawang, Salita Angkurawaranon, Emre Altinmakas, Hakan Dogan, Paulo Eduardo de Aguiar Kuriki, Arjuna Somasundaram, Christopher Ruston, Deniz Bulja, Naida Spahovic, Jennifer Sommer, Sirui Jiang, Eduardo Moreno Judice de Mattos Farina, Edu…

The RSNA Lumbar Degenerative Imaging Spine Classification (LumbarDISC) Dataset
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Lumbar Degenerative Imaging Spine Classification (LumbarDISC) dataset is the largest publicly available dataset of adult MRI lumbar spine examinations annotated for degenerative changes. The dataset includes 2,697 patients with a total of 8,593 image series from 8 institutions across 6 countries and 5 continents. The dataset is available for free for non-commercial use via Kaggle and RSNA Medical Imaging Resource of AI (MIRA). The dataset was cre…

ASMOP: Additional sampling stochastic trust region method for multi-objective problems
Nata\v{s}a Krklec Jerinki\'c, Luka Rute\v{s}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10976

ASMOP: Additional sampling stochastic trust region method for multi-objective problems
We consider an unconstrained multi-criteria optimization problem with finite sum objective functions. The proposed algorithm belongs to a non-monotone trust-region framework where additional sampling approach is used to govern the sample size and the acceptance of a candidate point. Depending on the problem, the method can result in a mini-batch or an increasing sample size approach. Therefore, this work can be viewed as an extension of additional sampling trust region method for scalar finite …

Group tracking Russian abductions of Ukrainian children prepares to shut down following Trump admin funding cut
https://www.yahoo.com/news/group-tracking-russian-abductions-ukrainian-172524783.html

Turnpike Property of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems in Large Horizons with Regime Switching I: Homogeneous Cases
Hongwei Mei, Rui Wang, Jiongmin Yong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09337

Turnpike Property of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems in Large Horizons with Regime Switching I: Homogeneous Cases
This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for a linear homogeneous stochastic differential equation having regime switching with purely quadratic functional in the large time horizons. We establish the so-called turnpike properties for the optimal pairs. The key is to prove a proper convergence of the solutions to the differential Riccati equations to the algebraic Riccati equation. Even for the problems without regime switchings, our result provides a refined estimate compared to t…

"The survey’s findings contradict conservative media narratives about transition regret, which suggest that large volumes of trans people detransition because they later regret their transition as a mistake. The survey found that only a small number of people detransition, and the decision is largely due to external factors."
**Largest-ever survey of #trans people reveals the real reason trans people detransition** - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/largest-ever-survey-of-trans-people-reveals-the-real-reason-trans-people-detransition/