Tootfinder

Was speaking to some journalists recently who didn't realise how long a history the use of radar has in measuring ice thickness over glaciers.
The technique was discovered by pilots, who must have had the frankly terrifying experience of landing on the ice sheet with their radars telling them they still had a few thousand metres of descent to reach the surface...
It's not mentioned in this obituary but I wonder if this guy would have seen it? Perhaps he didn't even have radar to assist in landing?
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/obituaries-bq1u22g8z/-/a-gd4LiLY4RbOMXavSDWOBQQ:a:3195393-/0
newyorktimes@flipboard.com - Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/obituaries/conrad-shinn-dead.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Obituaries @obituaries-newyorktimes

I just took a look at the proposed text for these "trump accounts".
The language begins at page 741 in the linked-to .pdf file, below.
The language is rather vague. For example, it does not indicate the base date for measuring the age of the "beneficiary". Is it the conception date or the live-birth date?
And the text is filled with terribly vague phrases like "Rules similar to the rules of section" - There are big devils lurking in that hor…

Trump to promote $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for newborns at White House event
President Donald Trump is set to host a roundtable at the White House on Monday to promote a key feature of the sweeping Republican domestic policy bill – a provision that would provide every American newborn with a $1,000 investment account, a White House official told CNN.

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Chiaki Miura, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07547

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Preprint has been considered to mainly supplement journal-based systems for the rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge, and has historically been by studies indicating that preprints and published reports have comparable authorship, references, and quality.However, as preprint increasingly serve as an independent medium for scholarly communication rather than precursors to the version of record, it remains uncertain how preprint usage is shaping scientific discourse.Our research r…

Freeze-in production of scalaron dark matter in $f(R)$ gravity
Basabendu Barman, Ashmita Das, Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar, Rudra Pratap Udgata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06436

Freeze-in production of scalaron dark matter in $f(R)$ gravity
We demonstrate that the scalaron, a scalar degree of freedom, emerging from the $f(R)$ theory of gravity, can account for the observed dark matter (DM) abundance if its mass is around the MeV scale, to ensure its cosmological stability. Focusing on two well-known $f(R)$ gravity models, we systematically show that if scalaron production proceeds via the freeze-in mechanism, the right relic abundance is satisfied over a very narrow window of reheating temperature $10^{14}\lesssim T_{\rm rh}\lesss…

The AI features in JetBrains products make me realize just how good their deterministic features were and continue to be. You get positive and actionable feedback on code rather than some strange recommendation and virtual shoulder shrug.

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.
I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/05/friday-links-25-0…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader . I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.  I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye...

Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
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Rather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.

Rather surprised to see the performance scaling of nftables is so bad compared to iptables, especially as many distros switched to nftables by default some time ago.
I do understand that synthetic benchmarks of firewalls are difficult, and that you are supposed to use the advanced features of nftables (e.g. sets, maps) to express the same filter in fewer rules.
h…