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I finally dug into doing SQLite3 stuff in Python so I can automate pulling out some of the stats from the RunGap backup file.
Sometimes progress is slow, but as long as it keeps going in the right direction it's all good.

Wind-driven Ranch fire in Apple Valley sparks evacuation order
A wind-whipped brush fire near Apple Valley had grown to 4,205 acres by about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday with no containment, according to Cal Fire #SanBernardino.
The #Ranchfire ignited south of Apple Valley around 2 p.m., according to fire offi…

Wind-driven Ranch fire in Apple Valley sparks evacuation order
The fire started in Apple Valley around 2 p.m., according to the San Bernardino Unit of Cal Fire.

Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 #exoplanet system: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09174-w.epdf?sharing_token=RRmxpt1H4UGfhsYggN3LidRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MsHgms7qJzLfZGfJR11eb-vvEQdUtgFRiob9i301fI7DuGo7WWpkZLKlBCdxpBK5AtQvipTF21oU1Tw3IfH_O299ja-Dy3Oo4o1Q5VRXUCWJTPdjQkwk4zJQSkuuzQX2KL605kQMDx_pt1BkUCYmaMuZtqUaPN5_fJM4TPjD9jmnj-omY7Blc5Ec9TOMsfMKyPlLhSsEPzgSnJUW1HLYkK77XpgEtFG9-NFAgx02m_lsc8Ieb6pLEOQVNzzni3RmECgd88noZtE_Xg2P3BIsbi&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com -> Astronomers left puzzled by high-altitude clouds forming on young planet: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/10/astronomers-space-telescope-clouds-planet - experts say thick slabs of cloud in YSES-1 system could consist of mineral dust and iron, which would rain down.

Heute in der öffentlichen #Ringvorlesung um 18:15 in der Aula am Wilhelmsplatz #Göttingen:
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Bahns vom @… üb…

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Ali Ranjbar, Elham Esmaeili, Roghayeh Rafieisangari, Nabiollah Shiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09596

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Electronic devices primarily aim to offer low power consumption, high speed, and a compact area. The performance of very large-scale integration (VLSI) devices is influenced by arithmetic operations, where multiplication is a crucial operation. Therefore, a high-speed multiplier is essential for developing any signal-processing module. Numerous multipliers have been reviewed in existing literature, and their speed is largely determined by how partial products (PPs) are accumulated. To enhance t…

Evidence for Dual Periodic Signatures in PKS 0805-07 from Multi-technique Time Series Analysis
Sikandar Akbar, Zahir Shah, Ranjeev Misra, Sajad Boked, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09602

Evidence for Dual Periodic Signatures in PKS 0805-07 from Multi-technique Time Series Analysis
We report the identification of two statistically significant quasi-periodic oscillations in the weekly binned $γ$-ray light curve of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 0805$-$07, observed by Fermi-LAT over the period MJD 59047.5-59740.5. By applying a suite of complementary time-series analysis techniques, we identify periodic signatures at approximately 255 and 112 days. These techniques include the Lomb-Scargle periodogram (LSP), Weighted Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ), REDFIT, Date-Compensated …

Vi är en grupp människor som vill att fler röster ska höras när ny teknik påverkar samhället. Vi vill uppmärksamma att det finns fler vägval och riktningar än som normalt får utrymme i visionerna. Vi vill att fler perspektiv ska få synlighet. Och vi börjar med att säga hej, med ett remissvar. 👋

https://folketsai.se/remissvar/

#Folk…

ob er dort auch mit seinem frisierten moped rumgefahren ist?
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_100758486/merz-hat-gute-erinnerungen-an-seinen-wehrdienst.html

Too Human to Model:The Uncanny Valley of LLMs in Social Simulation -- When Generative Language Agents Misalign with Modelling Principles
Yongchao Zeng, Calum Brown, Mark Rounsevell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06310

Too Human to Model:The Uncanny Valley of LLMs in Social Simulation -- When Generative Language Agents Misalign with Modelling Principles
Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to build agents in social simulation because of their impressive abilities to generate fluent, contextually coherent dialogues. Such abilities can enhance the realism of models. However, the pursuit of realism is not necessarily compatible with the epistemic foundation of modelling. We argue that LLM agents, in many regards, are too human to model: they are too expressive, detailed and intractable to be consistent with the abstraction, si…

Ums Zeigen und Sehen ging es heute bei der ersten Ringvorlesung in unserem vor einer Woche bezogenen neuen #Forschungsbau. Hubert Locher trug in "Showing Seeing" über das Ausstellen mit und von #Fotografie­n vor.