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Sandy Gall, an ITN presenter for 20 years and war correspondent who covered Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan, and more, has died at age 97 (Adam Nossiter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/business/media/sandy-gall-dead.html

Sandy Gall, War Correspondent Without Swagger, Dies at 97
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

This morning's harvest.
#Garden

¡Qué grande Sandy! 🤣😂
#Sandy #Humor #nx
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Alex Jones accused of trying to shield assets as Sandy Hook families seek payment on $1B judgment (Dave Collins/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-shooting-8f4c64aa6ca78f30c5a7472e92865edd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p32#a250618p32

Praia do Barill, Tavira, Portugal 2025 (my absolute favourite beach) 🙂
#Meermittwoch #Seawednesday #naturism #NormalisingNaturism

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of hiding money from Sandy Hook families (Tovia Smith/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436807/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-accused-of-hiding-money-from-sandy-hook-families
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p31#a250618p31

Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/14/slc-eyes-letting-ai-handle-some/…

Took a walk along the Venetian Waterway Park this morning. Noticed what I first thought was a bicycle track leading from the water. Look closely.
#florida

100-Day Analysis of USD/IDR Exchange Rate Dynamics Around the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Sandy H. S. Herho, Siti N. Kaban, Cahya Nugraha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18738 …

100-Day Analysis of USD/IDR Exchange Rate Dynamics Around the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Using a 100-day symmetric window around the January 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, non-parametric statistical methods with bootstrap resampling (10,000 iterations) analyze distributional properties and anomalies. Results indicate a statistically significant 3.61\% Indonesian rupiah depreciation post-inauguration, with a large effect size (Cliff's Delta $= -0.9224$, CI: $[-0.9727, -0.8571]$). Central tendency shifted markedly, yet volatility remained stable (variance ratio $= 0.9061$, $p =…

rd-spiral: An open-source Python library for learning 2D reaction-diffusion dynamics through pseudo-spectral method
Sandy H. S. Herho, Iwan P. Anwar, Rusmawan Suwarman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20633

rd-spiral: An open-source Python library for learning 2D reaction-diffusion dynamics through pseudo-spectral method
We introduce rd-spiral, an open-source Python library for simulating 2D reaction-diffusion systems using pseudo-spectral methods. The framework combines FFT-based spatial discretization with adaptive Dormand-Prince time integration, achieving exponential convergence while maintaining pedagogical clarity. We analyze three dynamical regimes: stable spirals, spatiotemporal chaos, and pattern decay, revealing extreme non-Gaussian statistics (kurtosis $>96$) in stable states. Information-theoretic m…

Took a walk along the Venetian Waterway Park this morning. Noticed what I first thought was a bicycle track leading from the water. Look closely.
#florida

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Sandy Irani, Jenny Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05071 https://

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Advances in storage technology have introduced Non-Volatile Memory, NVM, as a new storage medium. NVM, along with Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Solid State Disk (SSD), and Disk present a system designer with a wide array of options in designing caching middleware. Moreover, design decisions to replicate a data item in more than one level of a caching memory hierarchy may enhance the overall system performance with a faster recovery time in the event of a memory failure. Given a fixed bud…