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It's not just the English Channel / La Manche.
28 deaths a day as people try to reach Spanish Canary Islands by raft or open boat.
8 drowned in the harbour on arrival yesterday when theit boat capsized.
Again. Migration by boats will continue until a) source countries get just trade, reparations and an end to neocolonialism, and meanwhile,
b) #SafeRoutes
9.757 perso…

9.757 personas fallecieron en pateras o cayucos que trataban de llegar a Canarias en 2024: 28 muertes al día
Son los datos del balance anual que realiza la ONG Caminando Fronteras con su informe 'Monitoreo Derecho a la Vida' y que suponen un aumento del 62,4% frente a las cifras del año pasado

Ah, frequency illusion bias/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon! I have been learning about the nation-state Treaty of Westphalia stuff.
I'm finding it a bit odd that I'm so late to learn about this ... is it less emphasised in Australia? Why is it emphasised in the US?
At my current stage of learning, Australia's self-definition feels heavily 'state', with any discussion of 'nation' often being tied to racism.
More to learn I guess!
#NationState #TreatyOfWestphalia

Followerpower if you're from Sweden: I'm trying to figure out how to get around some places near Stockholm. There are some bus stops in a nature reserve, e.g., Järflottvägen (part of Nynäshamn), but the swedish rail webpage sj.se does not find this bus stop. Several sources say there are busses stopping there (lines 848,852), but only thirdparty sources, none look like the bus operator. Should I assume this bus is operating, and where would I find its official timetable and ticket in…

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

Körde den här igen idag och den är fortfarande otrolig. Cykeltur genom södra förorterna.
https://happyride.se/turtips/bakvagen.141/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09386 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Distortion of Multi-winner Election Using Single-Candidate Ballots
In this paper, we study the distortion bounds for voting mechanisms in multi-winner elections in general metric spaces. Our study pertains to the case in which each voter only reports her favorite candidate amongst $m$ possible choices. Given that candidates' locations are undisclosed to the mechanism, the mechanism has to form a $w-$winner committee based solely on the number of votes received by candidates. We establish distortion bounds for both truthful and non-truthful mechanisms. Our rese…

Robin Gemperle hat die #TourDivide gewonnen und dabei gleich noch einen Rekord aufgestellt. Er fuhr die 2700 Meilen (4350 km) in unter 12 Tagen.

Nach Horrortat in Graz - Amok-Trittbrettfahrer: „Es war ein großer Fehler“ #News #Nachrichten

Exploring Adapter Design Tradeoffs for Low Resource Music Generation
Atharva Mehta, Shivam Chauhan, Monojit Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21298 http…

Exploring Adapter Design Tradeoffs for Low Resource Music Generation
Fine-tuning large-scale music generation models, such as MusicGen and Mustango, is a computationally expensive process, often requiring updates to billions of parameters and, therefore, significant hardware resources. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques, particularly adapter-based methods, have emerged as a promising alternative, enabling adaptation with minimal trainable parameters while preserving model performance. However, the design choices for adapters, including their archi…